They are still templates, even by Squarespace's own admission, because you have to pick one or the blank one to create a site. It is backwards, annoying, and condescending not to expose information Squarespace obviously has to the site creator. Squarespace should just tell me what flavor of “starting point” my template ID, in the source code, corresponds to. Instead, they send creators on snipe hunts through posts like the one linked above, and force us to have frustrating forum conversations like these.