The template creation dialog intelligently guides you through the process, offering both template hierarchy options and custom templates. When selecting hierarchy templates, you get context-specific choices based on your site’s content.
For category archives, you can create general category templates or target specific categories. The workflow integrates with your actual site content, making template creation more intuitive than manual file naming.
WordPress provides starting patterns based on similar existing templates (like using archive.html as a starting point for category.html) or from registered full-page patterns designed for specific template types.
This guided approach eliminates guesswork about template naming, hierarchy relationships, and starting points – WordPress handles the technical details while you focus on design and functionality.