Status: IN
Factory Method's typical embedding within Template Methods — with Template Method identified as a primary principled inheritance bridge within the compositionally monistic design system — suggests that creational type-selection decisions are often channeled through a mechanism that legitimately employs inheritance in a composition-dominant system, tending to place object creation at points where inheritance-based customization feeds into compositional assembly.
Factory Method operates through Template Method, the sole legitimate inheritance mechanism in the monistic system
Depends on (SL): factory-method-called-within-template-methods, template-method-sole-inheritance-bridge-within-monistic-system