<template>: The Content Template element

What exactly is the point of <template> tag? Just to create document fragments? I mean that’s all you can really do with it in HTML. If you are using JS you can attach shadow dom to any element.

I guess maybe slots for web components is the other point?

Alpine.js uses <template> tags for if statements and for loops with stateful data. E.g. <template x-if="myVariable === 1"><div>1</div></template>

Which is a simpler way of thinking about templates, rather than slots and fragments.