Is it just me who doesn't see the point of using a templating engine with a language like PHP? As long as you use the MVC paradigm or at-least sperate views fr

Is it just me who doesn't see the point of using a templating engine with a language like PHP? As long as you use the MVC paradigm or at-least sperate views from business and data store logic it seems like PHP works fine to do the templating its self. Yes I can see the argument that non coders have to learn PHP, but is PHP really much harder to learn then the template language? Also templating add's performance overhead. What you essentially end up with is a "hypertext preprocessor preprocessor"