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I work as a graduate SW engineer at Andor, which produced the SCMOS camera they used to capture the images (https://andor.oxinst.com/balor-scmos).

Quite a nice surprise to see during my morning commute! Everyone here is extremely pleased to see how the images turned out. Very impressive work from DKIST

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If you don’t mind the curiosity:

These images seem to have a sort of “enhanced blurring” and depth-flattening reminiscent of early 3d ultrasounds.

Am I interpreting that right? Or is the surface of the sun really like that?

You'd have to ask a solar physicist about those solar structures I'm afraid or an optical expert about the image properties, I just work with camera software. If you haven't already you can download their press release which goes into a bit more detail than the main article [1].

I've also found some interesting bonus footage of the camera in a test setup for those that are curious (the actuating gray box in the background) [2]

[1] https://www.nso.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MediaKit.zip (1.25GB)

[2] https://www.nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/image17/

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