The screenshot was to demonstrate what blocked posts look like. I scrolled past the posts of my friends since I didn't want to dox them, but organic posts do show up near the top of my feed.
replyThe goal isn't to scroll through nothing, but rather have a clean feed that shows me just my friends and nothing else.
When you press "For you" at the top in the Instagram app (or the logo if it doesn't fully load), you can switch to "Following" and it will show you posts from only your friends from the past 30 days, and if you're using Instagram in the browser, you can bookmark https://www.instagram.com/?variant=following if you want it to be the default page you go to.
replySo why blur and not just hide?
replyIt says in the post OP didn't want to fix the layout (and it is implied that empty space is less friendly than blurred content)
replySame reason people use app timers when they can elect to not use the app instead.
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