I'm not saying the HTML boilerplate is useless. I'm saying that something less bare-bones is useful. Something less bare-bones can also be used as a base for

I'm not saying the HTML boilerplate is useless. I'm saying that something less bare-bones is useful. Something less bare-bones can also be used as a base for anything. Deleting unused elements is easy. The aside was intended to hold a variety of content. You're right that the sample content is navigation. I will look at making it a nav within the aside.