Typesetting automation – Lean document production workflow with Pandoc and LaTeX

Where I elaborate a bit on this project, that reached HN's frontpage yesterday:

http://mrzool.cc/tex-boilerplates/

Comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10663298

I don't want to sound too critical, but have any professional typographers reviewed this?

I'm mostly asking because at first glance, some of the models look quite terrible to me (questionable font pairing, excessive column width, no visible grid, etc.).