I'm not sure why you think I'd want that.

I do however feel like it's a temporary and half-hearted quick fix. If it were possible to add custom fields to the issue tracker, they could be used to sort and filter issues. They wouldn't have to be required, but maybe if you don't fill them in, your issue would be labeled "incomplete".

Since they're now asking people to go ahead and add a template file to their repos, it will make it more inconvenient to change this later.