Is it possible that things have been this bad, and Milei’s policy changes have slowed down the economic decline enough that the poverty line is more accurate?

I’m not an economist, just an engineer. My intuition is that when a system is in freefall, any recovery will cause some metrics to look really bad for a while.

Like when a plane is in a dive, your first steps are to idle the engine, push forward to unload the wings. Then you level the wings and pull up. Is this article saying “Not only are we in a dive, the engine power is going down!”?