Is there a video or some images of this somewhere? I would love to see a demonstration.
I looked it up on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6AsIqAmpeQ&t=1145s
And adding 2+2, the man being interviewed (Nirav Patel) is the same man who replied to my comment (HN user nrp), i.e. the man who actually did the overengineering.
If you rewind to 17:03, he talks about the changes of what the switch does (previously: USB disconnection, now: as he described in grandparent comment).