Here's a real softball for the development team:
When a view has a view template applied, and a user hits the Visibility/Graphics button, instead of showing a dialog box with every option greyed out, prompt the user for options that allow them to actually do something, similar to this:

Top option in case some tabs in the VG window aren't included in the view template.
Middle to enable temporary view properties and then open the VG window
Bottom option to just edit the view template (which I'm so close to getting to work through PostCommand, but it won't pre-select the already-applied template)