Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Latvian color terms/reply (3)

The purpose of having templates is to allow someone to easily modify them all in one go. That is what templates in general were designed to do, to reduce duplication and allow you to write something once and use it on many pages. You know, like a template! So writing it all out manually kind of defeats that purpose and makes it harder to maintain. The solution isn't to use less templates, it's to use templates that work better.

The template is the main cause of slowdown, but it is being phased out. There is a new template User:CodeCat/list helper which reduces those problems significantly, and most list templates have already been changed to use it. So the "uses too many resources" part doesn't actually apply anymore, and makes the RFD seem more like a witch hunt against anything that looks like a list template, than something that actually makes sense.