We now have working templates which work for creating projects manually. However, when we plug those templates into out Project automation API, the project is created, but no pre-translation takes place.

We would like to create the project using the template:
ProjectTemplateReference template = new ProjectTemplateReference(templateFile);
newProject = new FileBasedProject(this.GetInfoForTemplateProject(folderName, rootOrganization), template);

and then farther down in the code run the automatic tasks to ensure the settings from the template are implemented:
List<string> tasks = new List<string>() {
"Sdl.ProjectApi.AutomaticTasks.Scan",
"Sdl.ProjectApi.AutomaticTasks.Conversion",
"Sdl.ProjectApi.AutomaticTasks.Split",
"Sdl.ProjectApi.AutomaticTasks.Analysis",
"Sdl.ProjectApi.AutomaticTasks.Translate"};

. . .
TaskSequence tsk = newProject.RunAutomaticTasks(files, tasks.ToArray(), ProcessTaskStatusEvent, ProcessTaskMessageEvent);

Currently this creates the projects with the desired settings including the correct MT engines. We're just missing the pre-translation piece.
For previous MT engines (Beglobal3) we had to write a custom function to re-add the MT engine for all lang pairs, in addition to our settings in the template.
Is this still necessary for 2019 CU5 using the SDL Cloud MT? Thanks!