diff --git a/src/Perl6/Metamodel/GenericHOW.nqp b/src/Perl6/Metamodel/GenericHOW.nqp
index c8cebdec397..6391d3c9948 100644
--- a/src/Perl6/Metamodel/GenericHOW.nqp
+++ b/src/Perl6/Metamodel/GenericHOW.nqp
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-# A HOW that represents a generic type. It's something of a
-# placeholder for a type that we don't actually know yet.
-# It sits anywhere that a type could, and possession of one
-# of these confers genericity on the holder.
+#- Metamodel::GenericHOW -------------------------------------------------------
+# A HOW that represents a generic type. It's something of a placeholder for
+# a type that we don't actually know yet.  It sits anywhere that a type could,
+# and possession of one of these confers genericity on the holder.
 class Perl6::Metamodel::GenericHOW
     does Perl6::Metamodel::Naming
-    does Perl6::Metamodel::BUILDALL
 {
-    my $archetypes := Perl6::Metamodel::Archetypes.new( :generic(1) );
+    my $archetypes := Perl6::Metamodel::Archetypes.new(:generic);
     method archetypes($XXX?) { $archetypes }
 
     # The name we're created with is both the name we'll claim
@@ -14,46 +13,43 @@ class Perl6::Metamodel::GenericHOW
     # supplied type environment when we want to instantiate
     # ourself.
     method new_type(:$name) {
-        my $meta := self.new();
-        my $obj := nqp::settypehll(nqp::newtype($meta, 'Uninstantiable'), 'Raku');
-        $meta.set_name($obj, $name);
-        $obj
+        my $HOW  := nqp::create(self);
+        my $type := nqp::newtype($HOW, 'Uninstantiable');
+        nqp::settypehll($type, 'Raku');
+
+        $HOW.set_name($type, $name);
+        $type
     }
 
     method instantiate_generic($target, $type_environment) {
-        my $found := nqp::null();
-        my $name := self.name($target);
-        my $te-kind := $type_environment.HOW.name($type_environment);
+        my str $name  := self.name($target);
+        my str $kind  := $type_environment.HOW.name($type_environment);
+
 #?if !jvm
-        if $te-kind eq 'BOOTContext' {
+        my $found := $kind eq 'BOOTContext'
 #?endif
 #?if jvm
-        if $te-kind eq 'ContextRef' {
+        my $found := $kind eq 'ContextRef' {
 #?endif
-            $found := nqp::getlexrel($type_environment, $name);
-        }
-        elsif $te-kind eq 'BOOTHash' {
-            $found := nqp::atkey($type_environment, $name);
-        }
-        elsif nqp::isconcrete($type_environment) && $type_environment.EXISTS-KEY($name) {
-            $found := nqp::decont($type_environment.AT-KEY($name));
-        }
-        nqp::isnull($found)
-            ?? $target
-            !! $found.HOW.archetypes($found).generic
-                ?? $found.HOW.instantiate_generic($found, $type_environment)
-                !! $found
-    }
+          ?? nqp::getlexrel($type_environment, $name)
+          !! $kind eq 'BOOTHash'
+            ?? nqp::atkey($type_environment, $name)
+            !! nqp::isconcrete($type_environment)
+                 && $type_environment.EXISTS-KEY($name)
+              ?? nqp::decont($type_environment.AT-KEY($name))
+              !! nqp::null;
 
-    method compose($target) { $target }
-
-    method find_method($XXX, $name, *%c) {
-        nqp::null()
+        nqp::isnull($found)
+          ?? $target
+          !! $found.HOW.archetypes($found).generic
+            ?? $found.HOW.instantiate_generic($found, $type_environment)
+            !! $found
     }
 
-    method type_check($XXX, $checkee) {
-        0
-    }
+    # General methods that are expected to work
+    method compose($target)              { $target   }
+    method find_method($XXX, $name, *%_) { nqp::null }
+    method type_check($XXX, $checkee)    { 0         }
 }
 
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