Board Game Arena

Some of you already noticed: when you generate a new project, these files are not generated anymore.
The replacements are :
X.action.php => use autowired actions directly in the game file
material.inc.php => if you want to split you material data outside of the game.php file, you can generate material files in modules/php
X_X.tpl & X.view.php => generate the template on the JS file using string templates

All these changes have been applied to the Reversi tutorial, I recommend to (re-)read it if you want to see concrete examples of these changes.

Note: you can still create the optional file with the correct name, if you want to use the old way.

I thought I would just create a test project to try out some TPL ideas and... I just noticed this. Was a shock to be truthful.

I get the idea of adding HTML fragments via javascript but it is not a panacea. Writing HTML in an HTML file feels more natural (imho).

I don't want to halt progress. I am sure there is a good set of reasons but this is a significant change.

I was able to create a TPL file as suggested. Remember that the file has to be called <project>_<project>.tpl and it has to be placed in the top-level folder. Also you need to comment out the JS fragment that writes the 'Player zone content goes here' so that your TPL based HTML doesn't disappear.

Does it make sense to refactor an old project for a new standards (getting rid of deprecated .tpl, action.php, view.php, states.php, etc.)?

Looks like quite a lot of work and I don't want to break a working implementation, if compatibility with the old format remains.
What do fellow developers do?