Templates not automatically doing "Get Latest Version"

I was asked this by a colleague, but wasn't quite sure how to answer:

PDM automatically retrieves the latest version of files when you open them or copy them out of the vault. Why does it not do this for the drawing templates? Do you know of other file types where one must do a “Get Latest Version” manually?

Anyone know the answer? I have the user settings to always use the latest version, but templates seem to evade this.

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