Problems with barcharts with barmode='overlay' and Date objects

I need to plot several barcharts with Date objects on the x-axis with barmode = 'overlay' for a whole year. When there are enough values to plot, everything works fine, as I would like the bars to have equal widths along all traces.

But when one trace has few elements, the width of those traces are expanded.
And when one trace only has 1 value, it is not shown at all.

I could overcome those problems by creating fictional Dates with 0 y-values for the rest of the year, but I was hoping there is a better way of solving that.

The variable n in the example can be used to determine the amount of bars for the problematic
trace.

library(plotly)
n = 3

## All days of 2019 ###############
Days2019 <- data.frame(
  date = seq(as.Date("2019-01-01"), as.Date("2019-12-31"), by = "days")
)

## Sample n Days of 2019 ###############
df <- data.frame(
  date = sort(sample(Days2019$date, size = n, replace = F)),
  val = sample(1:100, n, replace = T)
)

## Merge fictional 0 y-Values #################
# df = merge(df, Days2019, by="date", all=T)
# df[is.na(df$val),]$val=0

## Sample 30 Days of 2019 ###############
holiday1 <- data.frame(
  date = sort(sample(Days2019$date, size = 30, replace = F))
)

## Plot Plotly ###############
maxY = max(df$val)
plot_ly() %>%
  add_trace(data = holiday1, x = ~date, y = maxY, marker = list(color = "gray"), type="bar", name="Holidays") %>% 
  add_trace(data = df, x = ~date, y = ~val, marker = list(color = "red"), type="bar", name="Values") %>% 
  plotly::layout(autosize = F,
                 barmode = 'overlay',
                 bargap = 0.05,
                 xaxis = list(
                   type = "date",
                   range = c(as.Date("2019-01-01")-1,
                             as.Date("2019-12-31")+1),
                   autorange = FALSE,
                   tickmode = "auto",
                   nticks = 14L,
                   automargin = F)
  )

Empieza ejecutando el ejemplo de R proporcionado con n=3; después varía n y compara los anchos de las barras y la visibilidad en modo overlay entre las dos trazas. Sigue el tratamiento de barras y Date de plotly.R utilizado por este ejemplo y considera resuelto el issue cuando las trazas Date dispersas conserven anchos adecuados y un único valor se renderice sin requerir fechas ficticias con valor cero.