Parsoid already detects "empty lines" (lines that would get stripped in the legacy parser and hence change the wikitext that is actually processed). But, parsoid only detects comment-only empty lines, but doesn't expand it to when a line only has a category (or other rendering-transparent magic words). This can then lead to rendering difs.
See this example below:
$ echo "the trail is {{Mi|5}} long and it's a {{Mi|5|on}} trail" | php bin/parse.php --domain shn.wikivoyage.org --dump tplsrc 1 ↵ [dump] ============================ template source ============================ TEMPLATE:ထႅမ်းပလဵတ်ႉ:MiTRANSCLUSION:"{{Mi|5}}" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 mi (8.0 km) [[en:Template:Mile]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [dump] ============================ template source ============================ TEMPLATE:ထႅမ်းပလဵတ်ႉ:MiTRANSCLUSION:"{{Mi|5|on}}" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5-mile (8.0 km) [[en:Template:Mile]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <p about="#mwt1" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-parsoid='{"dsr":[0,21,0,0],"firstWikitextNode":"P","pi":[[{"k":"1"}]]}' data-mw='{"parts":["the trail is ",{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Mi","href":"./ထႅမ်းပလဵတ်ႉ:Mi"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"5"}},"i":0}}]}'>the trail is 5<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>mi (8.0<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>km)</p><span about="#mwt1"> </span><link rel="mw:PageProp/Language" href="https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Template:Mile" about="#mwt1" data-parsoid='{"stx":"simple","a":{"href":"https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Template:Mile"},"sa":{"href":"en:Template:Mile"}}'/><pre data-parsoid='{"dsr":[21,55,1,0]}'>long and it's a <span about="#mwt2" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-parsoid='{"pi":[[{"k":"1"},{"k":"2"}]],"dsr":[38,49,null,null]}' data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"Mi","href":"./ထႅမ်းပလဵတ်ႉ:Mi"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"5"},"2":{"wt":"on"}},"i":0}}]}'>5-mile (8.0</span><span typeof="mw:Entity" about="#mwt2"> </span><span about="#mwt2">km) </span><link rel="mw:PageProp/Language" href="https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Template:Mile" about="#mwt2" data-parsoid='{"stx":"simple","a":{"href":"https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Template:Mile"},"sa":{"href":"en:Template:Mile"}}'/>trail</pre>
This renders as a single line without line breaks or pres with the legacy parser. But, the [[en:Template:Mile]]\n doesn't get stripped in Parsoid and introduces a linebreak during token processing that leads to Parsoid's rendering with a <pre>..</pre> etc.
This shows up on this shnwikivoyage page