The solution that I’m leaning towards is “external templates” (or “community templates”), as another section in this menu:
It would spawn templates that live in external repositories, mentioning the authors, reasoning and so on.
Basically, just have some metadata in place, together with the command that needs to be called. Ideally, with some tests too.
We have some candidates for it already, plus there are also other scaffolding tools like GitHub - camdengrieh/scaffold-dot: Open source forkable Ethereum dev stack with support for Polkadot.
I haven’t planned any of that work for Q3, however, together with some new feedback from W3S hackathon, sounds like something that we’ll do in Q4.