I was in a block of the month group last year and the quilt design was based on Marti Mitchell pattern and templates. There were so many people who complained about it that the quilt shop owner wound up giving everyone a few yards of free fabric.
But, some of you really like the Marti Mitchell ones, so maybe we were not using them correctly. We were told to draw around them, then place our ruler against the drawn lines to cut. We tried cutting against the templates and just could not do it. It was Marti Mitchell's L set. So perhaps it was that particular set that was difficult.