title_font broken within template layouts

Setting title font of a figure via templates has stopped working - including the example The template layout property which simply makes the title Rockwell in Size 24.

The example below should show (in Jupyter) a blank plot with a title in Times New Roman

import plotly.express as px
import plotly.io as pio
import plotly.graph_objs as go

# we create a figure with a layout, where we only change the title_font
fig = go.Figure(layout=dict(title_font=dict(family="Times New Roman", size=24)))

# create a test template
pio.templates["test_template"] = pio.to_templated(fig).layout.template

# show a blank plot with just a title to show the template won't pull in title_font data
px.line(title="This Should Be Times New Roman", template="test_template").show()

It doesn't make a difference if we use full dictionary or magic underscore notation

title=dict(font=dict(family="Times New Roman"))
title_font=dict(family="Times New Roman")

** However **

Updating the layout of a figure, not using the template, does still work, for example

# build fig with template
# use the fig.update_layout() to update title font in layout
# This will have a title in Times New Roman
fig = px.line(title="This IS Times New Roman", template="test_template")
fig = fig.update_layout(title_font={'family':'Times New Roman'}).show()

Thank you for a great tool!

Run the provided Python example in Jupyter and compare the template-based figure with the direct update_layout example. Trace pio.to_templated, pio.templates, and the title_font/title.font layout paths to find why the template does not retain the font. Done means the template example renders the title in Times New Roman and the linked documentation example works again.