Being slightly more complicated is a feature, IMO. I always get the impression that the logicless templates end up as quite logicful languages once you add all

Being slightly more complicated is a feature, IMO. I always get the impression that the logicless templates end up as quite logicful languages once you add all the control flow directives. But its all very ad hoc so some simple things end up being tricky to do, like passing parameters to a subtemplates or giving different CSS classes to the even and odd rows. If you just use a regular programming language from the start these are just a matter of calling a subroutine or using an if statement instead of being something you will need to go to Stackoverflow to figure out.