Share cost for MBB Slide Templates (4/5 ways)

Meme aside, I've never been a fan of using other folks' templates. PPT Master Slide formatting and creating a base 10-20 retoolable slides takes a bit of work, but that's really just a one-time uplift. I also find myself storyboarding or workshopping the content of my current project into new slides using pieces of previous slides all the time. If I see a table or graph from a previous deck I made, and then resize it to make room for a pre-formatted text box or something, that's a lot easier to work with than a slide template that doesn't quite fit the need.  

The biggest reason I'm really not a fan: it's extremely difficult be consistent in scope and granularity with pre-built decks. Some executive decks will be very content-light while other report-style decks will include entire word documents worth of text in the PPTs. It depends heavily on the purpose and audience of the deck you're building and the prebuilt decks are often highly confining in that respect. 

Finally, as someone who's used prebuilt decks, sometimes, those shapes have some dumb formatting options (like resize to fit text - f*ck this option in particular) that have to be caught early before you have a number of different shapes you have to manually adjust. You really don't need 200+ slide templates. A good batch of like 10-20 slides will be far more versatile and useful than 200+ slides. 

I get the whole notion of being efficient and not re-creating the wheel, but I'd rather invest in PPT extensions like Macabacus or Efficient Elements that save countless hours of work than a one-time slideworks purchase.