My own personal opinion is this: the creation of stock templates doesn’t hurt the profession at all; Rather, it empowers designers to save time and money on development costs and it’s part of the natural progression of our industry.
If you look at any other industries in history and you’ll see the same trends towards the commoditization of items that were previous big-ticket services… It’s actually kinda surprising that it took this long for our quickly moving industry to hit this stage.
That doesn’t diminish the fact that some people are probably irritated by the new movement within the industry. Using templates feels… well, wrong … to a group of professionals that largely prides themselves on creativity, originality, and hard work ethic.
As an example though, let’s examine the case of the photography industry not too long ago – an industry that was for years steeped in mysterious and inaccessible processes that were dangerous and difficult to master – which left 99% of consumers reliant upon film developers to process their film into prints; Film developers were probably irritated when the first serious digital camera / printer combination came out, but Flickr is bigger than ever and the photography field as a whole has benefited.
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