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I'd say neither is necessary more "template based" and you shouldn't really run into any actual design or layout roadblocks once you understand how they work. At their core, both more or less just give you their own proprietary set of tags which can be added to any PHP based template you create.
IMO, the real difference between the two is more that Wordpress straight out of the box anyway is very much geared towards blogging. Your content (data fields) will be structured in a blog post format (title, body, date, etc), which is going to be suitable for some sites but not all. You can escape this to a certain extent by adding custom fields and so on but it's a lot of work to escape it completely.
Expression Engine on the other hand doesn't assume you are designing a blog and the first thing you will do is create your own custom data fields. Using some of the plugins that are out there, you can also do things like create fields with a variable number of items - for instance, if you had an "music album" item you could add three tracks for one or ten for another - I never saw an easy way to do this with WP.