WTH is there not a helper to create entities from the `template` platform

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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It’d be nice if there was a template entity helper where you could create an entity using the UI and the template platform. When creating a helper, the UI would prompt for:

  1. what type of entity you creating (cover, light, fan, etc)
  2. each of the fields allowed by each entity (e.g. template cover asks for each of the variables shown here)
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duplicate of WTH can’t template sensors be made in UI

Let’s track that one instead.