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It's a refreshing change to hear this. Ever since that one video essay I just can't take directors and actors seriously when they espouse that their film has (almost) no CGI or VFX in it.
Background CGI for ensuring consistency and immersion is what CGI excels at. Human-based CGI still has the uncanny valley. I loved Furiosa, but you can easily tell when they had CGI humans for stunts.
It's just another tool and directors need to choose the appropriate time to use it and when not to.
See also: The 'Fury Road' Practical Effects Myth Is Hurting 'Furiosa'
It's like the time Tom Hardy pretty much admitted to take Performance Enhancing Drugs, because of course the actors getting superhero bodies in months do.
VFX are used extensively but usually not in thr noticeable ways people think of from sci-fi or fantasy films. I went with a friend in the VFX trade and he has a friend credited for environmental effects on Furiosa. I asked if it was modelling some of the striking landscapes and he said it was usually more subtle than that - this article puts the emphasis on that more subtle work. And it makes a lot of sense - filming takes a long time and it was previously a nightmare maintaining continuity for factors out of your control, like the weather.
Schwarzenegger once spoke about how when he went mainstream actors would privately come to him asking for weight lifting advice because it turned out that many of them were doing it secretly to create the illusion that they were all "naturally masculine". Basically the same dynamic.