In using View Templates (V/T) more and more, there are a few things I think that could be improved.
Often users are confused with what is in and what isn't in the V/T's. For a seasoned user, it's easy to tell, but sometimes takes a couple extra steps to figure that out.
For example: I have a V/T applied to my view, but in order to see what is included, I need to open up that dialog. I then see that the model categories (or something similar) aren't included in the V/T, so I then have to close out and go back to the V/G dialog and find my setting.
On the flip side, if someone was to go to the V/G dialog first, they see the settings, but can't edit them, so then have to go to the V/T dialog.
I'd like to see some kind of melding of the V/G and the V/T dialogs. Make the settings more fluid and simpler/quicker to access and adjust. For one, there is no way to assign a keyboard shortcut to the view specific V/T settings, that would help.
But making it so that there is one unified dialog that you can access all of the settings one way or another, would be a better solution. Just having a good way of knowing what is being driven by the V/T and what is just a view specific setting would solve a lot of issues.