I think the automatic project creation is an awesome feature, but unfortunately, it only does seem to work with Freestyle-projects used as templates.
Maybe I am doing something wrong, as I don't fully understand all configuration options for automatic project creation. (I think the documentation is a bit lacking in this regard).
As we are converting all our projects to use pipelines defined as Jenkinsfile at the root of the projects, it would be awesome if a pipeline-project configured this way could be used as a template.