We coincidentally have the same name of template, I created my "elegant" template a few years ago (albeit it's a custom work in progress). I may end up renaming the template if it contributes to confusion.
Anyways, Protostar displays this just fine. I found out this had to do with the clearfix class, my template appended a content pseudo class content which barely bumped the content and created a scroll bar. ES2 has been so clean that I started getting used to not testing with Protostar.
So all is well, I'll mark this as resolved.