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 Instead, the case study was [designed](#22-rules) to discover
 minimum viable [patterns](#321-mount-functions) that are truly vanilla.
 The result is maintainable, albeit [verbose](#522-the-verbose) and with
-considerable duplication (most of which may be mitigated by ES6).
+considerable duplication.
 
 If anything, the case study validates the value of build steps and frameworks,
 but also demonstrates that standard web technologies can be used effectively and