I looked at this. I am using the command from the command pallette ‘Daily Notes: Open Today’s Daily Note’ during testing to trigger today’s daily note. When I trigger the template on its own, I do use the Templater command: Templater: Insert Template.
If the intent is to say that the Daily Notes plugin doesn’t interact with Templater and I should add the template after the fact, I could do that but I was hoping to understand why I would need to.