User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Template Types: A Smarter Categorization System/@comment-15278555-20151123233632/@comment-126761-20151126141742

We do appreciate the feedback - we're passing it on and will be iterating on the behaviour in the future. For example, adding the ability to assign template types directly from Special:Templates is on our list for a future update.

Various benefits of this feature are described in the blog post above ("Advantages of Types") - are there specific ones we could explain in more depth?