You have a point for extracting exact duplicates that you know will remain the same. But the point of the rule of 3 remains. Humans do a horrible job of abstr

You have a point for extracting exact duplicates that you know will remain the same. But the point of the rule of 3 remains. Humans do a horrible job of abstracting from one or two examples, and the act of encountering an abstraction makes code harder to understand.