[giberti]

Definitely an opinionated implementation.

It doesn’t make sense for generalized scripts that automate routine tasks. But for some maintenance, build, test, or deploy scripts that only ever perform a specialized job from a single location, it could be handy. I appreciate that Maciej provided it. Always easier to remove it than have to go find it yourself in the odd script you might need it.

[nemetroid]

It's useful when it's useful, but I disagree that it belongs in a minimal template, and especially so without mentioning the obvious drawbacks.

[imtringued]

It's minimal in the sense that it's a small template. It's not "minimal" in the sense that you can't do without every single line of the template. Just remove the parts you don't want. It would defeat its purpose if there were multiple templates that each aim at different things and then you have to decide which template you have to choose. Having two minimal templates is not minimal because of the redundancy.