No, you know what, it isn't. I'll just say it, it's not impressive software at all, and the fact that they can't apply simple lens correction is a little embarrassing. In high school, I worked in a FIRST robotics club where we had to design, program and test our own computer vision models on robots, which would need to complete various tasks to varying degrees of precision. To that point, I have seen high-school Juniors write a program that can track your face in Python, it's really not some sort of mind-blowing, next gen thing.
Overall, I'm starting to really hate these Halide reviews. Their lifeline is based on the success of Apple hardware, why should they consider themselves a credible and unbiased source in these reviews? It's glaringly unprofessional at best, and downright cringe-inducing at worst.