Statement "no loader defined => falls back to ejs/lodash" is simply not true

The documentation, under "Writing your own templates"
https://github.com/jantimon/html-webpack-plugin#writing-your-own-templates

claims that lodash is used "out of the box", if no loader is defined. But that is simply not true. This sandbox proves it:
https://codesandbox.io/s/divine-bird-rqtqz

This template provides a working pug configuration alongside the failing html template configuration.

If I am wrong, would you please be so kind as to point out what the culprit is?
And if I am right, is there any chance to fix this problem?

Thank you!

Sorry I have a hard time to understand what you mean..

html-webpack-plugin willl add a small lodash based template loader - this loader checks if another loader is registered for the very same file and bail out if needed:

html-webpack-plugin/lib/loader.js

Lines 13 to 16 in 2f5de7a

    
           // This loader shouldn't kick in if there is any other loader (unless it's explicitly enforced) 
        
           if (allLoadersButThisOne.length > 0 && !force) { 
        
             return source; 
        
           }

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	// This loader shouldn't kick in if there is any other loader (unless it's explicitly enforced)
	if (allLoadersButThisOne.length > 0 && !force) {
	return source;
	}