Might I suggest this:

Create a ~/Templates folder by default (by placing it in /etc/skel), and
populate it with symbolic links to new template files located at
/usr/share/default-templates  (this is a new directory, and files in
here do not show up as templates by default, unlike
/usr/share/templates).

This can be done entirely with a separate package (default-templates)
and shouldn't bother upstream.  It will allow the user to remove a
template (by deleting the symbolic link), and allow us to update a
template (by updating the package).

The downside is that we can't add any new templates to an existing
user's folder when they upgrade, but that's also the situation today.  I
don't see an easy way of allowing users to delete templates while also
shipping a default set, not without upstream code changes.

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"Create Document" Templates difficult to use
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