The package.json has a lot of fields that are not necessary right away which can slow down getting started.
After cloning the repo, it was pointed out to me that I already had erroneously assigned a version, keywords, author, homepage, repository and package description.
It shouldn't be necessary so early on to have to worry about these fields. Developers have different workflows and some (myself included) like to think about these prior to deployment.
Any node developer knows what these are for and having them in the template node is just irritating and can lead to erroneous information.
I assume these are important as part of deployment but it seems worrying about these can be delayed until the user wants to deploy their repo.