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Great for all my cases where when my <cat> elements cleanly inherits from <animal>!

I could be misreading this, but it looks like this project is overriding the UA’s `querySelector` family of methods, which doesn’t quite sit right. I thought it was a best practice to level the built-in prototypes alone.

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to leave* the built-in prototypes alone

Monkey-patching native DOM APIs is really how polyfills are made. This way, people are able to simulate an idea and have a more productive conversation around it. All with a view to having it succeeded by a native implementation.

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