iFixit On Gizmodo's iPhone Teardown: "It's Very Close To Production"

iFixit is famous for its authorative Apple product teardowns. I just emailed the CEO, Kyle Wiens, with some questions about Gizmodo's teardown. Here's Kyle's take:
Eh… the photos are so bad.
Gizmodo emailed me asking the same thing.
I asked them why they didn't remove the (very removable) EMI shields.
It's closer to production than I was expecting. I'd [...:]