Yes, and therefore bad troubleshooting.

Don't blame systems for bad input; garbage in, garbage out.

I wouldn’t. We do know, indeed boast, that AI is used to boost the apparent performance of consumer grade cameras and especially iPhones. There is that example of a photocopier changing numbers in the images it copies. Illusions are reasonably likely to be either in the human or the machine vision systems.

Yes indeed.

IMO this is also a good example of engineers looking for complex bugs and solutions which are simply not there.

Yes. In an area with lots of leaves, not unreasonable to think motion or parallax unexpectedly included a leaf - vs some wild convergence of leading edge technological bugs perfectly rendering content in a system which shouldn’t.

Definitely. I'm into photography, although I'm not by any means an expert, and when I first saw this news I just ignored it thinking there were so much going on, and the cause might be anything simple, it didn't really spark my curiosity.

I thought maybe it was just some processing glitch, maybe it was computational photography messing up, maybe it was just a question of focus, or maybe a mix of things.