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    Archetype is probably intended to be a base class with virtuals. Your second example would slice the objects, killing polymorphism. Commented Nov 6, 2021 at 22:15
  • @Mat This was also my first thought. But Archetype does not seem to be derived further in this article. Commented Nov 7, 2021 at 17:34