Players that don't know the technical term "billboarding" might use this as a way to say that the images of the food are "flat" unlike the rest of the 3D modeled environment. Just a suspicion!
Author here! Agreed that are different levels of "engaged" from users, which is okay. The concerning part of this finding is that even dependent users that I know to be highly engaged didn't respond to the deprecation warnings, so they're not working for even the most engaged users.
~/.config/pip/pip.conf
[install] uploaded-prior-to = P3D