Some of it may be unintentional. I've created issues directly through the `gh` CLI before, and issue templates don't show up there at all. If I haven't actually cloned the repo (or, more frequently, if I have a sparse checkout/deleted the files to save space), I have no way of knowing that there's a template and I'll just `gh issue -R some/thing create`.

I finally moved on to the official GitHub app on mobile, but before that I used fasthub and other clients that had no idea about issue templates.

GitHub really needs to add permissions to issues, so that users can't create issues without the template; any kind of failure in creation is a sign that you're doing something wrong. The ability to add tags to issues when creating via CLI would also be helpful.