Hi Justin, thanks for the posts. I wanted to add some clarifications around the page templates feature.

While this is a nice development, traditional page templates may not make much sense in the block theming paradigm. There is no way to change the visual output of the page in the editor based on the selected template

The page templates that were introduced in Gutenberg 9.7 have nothing traditional aside the fact that they're being applied with the same existing UI. Actually, you can m make changes and see the visual output in the editor based on the selected template. You can do so by relying on the "template mode" that was introduced in Gutenberg 9.6.

So they are already what you suggest they should be: Block Layouts the user can choose from when starting a page/post but at the "template" level and not the "content" level.

This is not reflected in the UI clearly yet but the work on the interface often takes some time and iterations.

Thanks a lot for all these updates.