The point was, cleric for example should have "X past life bonus". You could double-up if you didn't do that class already, by doing Iconic. That was a good idea initially.
Now they're making templates outside the useful pattern, meaning you have to do at least 6 clerics, if you want to "finish" that class. Every new template is going to
add another redundant level of hamsterwheel (lord knows we have 5 of those already), and is completely unneeded. The archtypes do not need Class Bonus 2.0. They
should be played for a new flavor, period. That way players can still do just 3 cleric lives.... Base, Iconic, Dark (Cleric example), and still be done.
Can't explain it much simpler than that.