It drives me nuts when I see people buying lite weight hunting rigs and then slam on vortex 6-24x50 or what ever.
WTF!?
I put a 3-12 on my 6.5 and it’s a little heavy or big for my super lite...but the 12x is nice when I want to reach out in off season on targets.
What are you going to do in thick timber on 6? With they big heavy monster? GTFOH
Now as a bench rifle, then all day long.

All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.