When editing in the DiscussionTool, a drop down of common templates/snippets would be useful. For example {{done}}, etc. This helps newer users discover these templates.
Exactly what these snippets are would be configured on-wiki:
WikiEditor has this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar_customization#action
I do not know if there is such a thing with VE (I certainly don't see any documentation of it).
References
- The Android Team is experimenting with functionality similar to what this ticket is describing in T288105.