Can you explain why templating in Salt is better than using conditionals[1], loops[2], and variables[3] in Ansible playbooks? You can even use templates[4] in Ansible that are Jinja2 as well.

[1] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks2.html#conditional...

[2] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks2.html#loops

[3] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks2.html#variable-fi...

[4] http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html#template