There are currently a large number of users posting the same issues that revolve around bugs in v1.0 of Xamarin Forms. Many of these bugs have been squished in the current stable release, but as of this posting, the stable release was posted 6 days ago and only 68 downloads on nuget.
With the number of bugs squished, I think now might be a good time to release a Xamarin hotfix, forcing users to have the newer version of Xamarin.Forms (currently 1.2.2 build 6243) in their initial project.
Side note (and I don't know if this is entirely possible), is there a way to define the package in the template, and then run a script on project creation to restore the package (both Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Android.Support.V4)? That way the user will have the current stable every time instead of whatever is sitting in the template?