Angular-cli: generate app-shell with inline styles and templates

Versions

Angular CLI: 1.6.3
Node: 8.9.1
OS: linux x64
Angular: 5.1.2
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router, service-worker

@angular/cli: 1.6.3
@angular/platform-server: error
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer: 0.0.36
@angular-devkit/core: 0.0.22
@angular-devkit/schematics: 0.0.42
@ngtools/json-schema: 1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack: 1.9.3
@schematics/angular: 0.1.11
@schematics/schematics: 0.0.11
typescript: 2.4.2
webpack: 3.10.0

Desired behavior

It would be nice to be able to use the --inline-styles and --inline-templates flags on the ng generate appShell command. I have all the rest of my app generated with inline templates and styles so it is weird that I can't do that with the app-shell as well.