Actually I agree with *this*. If there is a justification to export code (not just static content plus some "interpolation") to a templating system, it might be exact for this reason.

But I have a hard time to see where it would improve maintainability, because then in order to change the presentation layer (template) you have to send your programmers too. (One of the arguments was, that templates don't need programmers. More precisely - the work on (changing) templates.)

And as for the programmers: I have an *extremely* hard time to see where this code splattering would improve readability.