Comment by rckt
In the gallery https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/gallery/ there's a good example of what I mean - the bottom right image or 4th from the end. A completely different image in comparison to the gradient.
As for the minimalism, I understand what you mean. But I understood the "minimal" part in regard to implementation, not usage. If we only mean usage, we can say the same about a lot of libs, that they are minimal. Yeah, it's minimal for the end user, but under the hood it is not as minimal. It's not anything bad, it's just how I interpreted the title.