It's not so much that it's intentional, but comments are just objects like any other, and there is no special treatment for them when copying the template. Now I guess it could make sense to add the concept of filtering (remove or modify part of the template during the creation of a new page based on some configuration), but that would we be another jira issue IMO.
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