How to Force Component Re-Render?

I ended up firing an event on each object removed that caused them to trigger their own updates. I did this with a config object, but here's a more specific draft of my code. These are shadow dom components so this.parent().closest('pathway') is a selector for <pathway></pathway>

          // this.closest(whatever) is always 0.
          const pathway = this.parent().closest('pathway');
          // This is only dispatched once, because (likely) nodes are removed from parent -> down.
            if (pathway) {
              pathway.view.el.dispatchEvent(
                new CustomEvent(`step:title-updated`, {
                  bubbles: true,
                }),
              );
            }

In general, re-rendering is not the editor's job. Though I would have been content refreshing all the content, but no access to the editor object from within removed.