These replies are great and the picture is getting clearer, but now I wonder... The linked article describes Anton Toutov as struggling to get the basic reactio

These replies are great and the picture is getting clearer, but now I wonder... The linked article describes Anton Toutov as struggling to get the basic reaction figured out, being ready to give up, finally getting it to work well, etc. But this doesn't fit the underlying simplicity of the reaction. Kudos to Anton for noticing the oddity and figuring out what was going on, but was there really a heroic struggle or was that journalistic license?