it also sounds good in between, imho even better...

the examples are probably intended to picture the range of the device.
as an insert in a midi controllable device TD's knobs can be automated. Never experienced glitches even with fast mouse movements, btw.
on drum sounds it can perfectly remove the ambience part at a (say) 10-11 o'clock position while retaining a 'natural' expression.
I once found it even more stunning on a (very nice) vocal recording that was full of late 60's shatter-reverb.
Looks like it's heavily 'abused' in the vocal domain recently to add presence to untrained voices à la casting shows...
SPL always denied this application, for whatever reason - though Bob Clearmountain was cited frequently to exactly use TD that way, attack just a few ticks to the right.
cheers, Tom