My take is: As explained in the article, user-avatar does absolutely nothing. If anything, it could only enhance the existing markup (with behavior), but never replace it. It’s… semantic markup, if you will.
Baloney if you ask me.
Baloney if you ask me.
I guess user-avatar could define a template that includes styles and slots to turn the image into a round image and maybe add some caption and link to it. But that would still require JS to print the template.content.