Gaston D.
Minimalism of laziness and minimalism of sublime wisdom - not the same.
You're right about this, of course, and my original post wasn't mean to infer that all minimalist decks are inferior or lazy - just some of them. (Then again, there are certainly "maximalist" decks that are inferior and/or lazy as well.)
It's when you get the High Priestess with, say, a crescent moon and a pebble or something that I really can't read it and feel that something has been stripped too far. I need layers...
This pretty much encapsulates my own problem with some (again, not all!) minimalist decks. Such decks rely so much on "intuition" and "bringing your own experience" into a reading that one may as well be reading with a stack of blank index cards - at some point it stops being Tarot and starts being something else (like an oracle deck perhaps? And to be clear, I have no problem with oracle decks - they're simply a different tool I use sometimes. But generally they don't have the same resonance and depth of meaning to me as Tarot decks do.)
And again, I very much appreciate the variety of responses to my original post. It was never intended to provoke a mass pile-on against minimalist decks at all and I value hearing opinions from both sides of the debate.