Probably, however, it makes me think of the Galaxy Note 7 problem. For those who don't remember, these phones had a battery problem that can cause them to catch fire, resulting in one of the most infamous smartphone recall campaign.

The cause of the problem is that the electrodes were pinched inside the pouch cell, in some cases causing a short circuit and a fire. To put it simply, it was too tight in there.

So here it is possible that these defects are a result of having too small safety margins for how these batteries are manufactured.

In addition, they only focused on the electrode alignment issue, because it is visible on their CT scans, they didn't study the electronics, the casing, the connectors, etc... There may be some other issues there.

Say using 20% more electrolyte would prevent insufficient spacing and separation of the plates. You get a safer/higher quality product but it's heavier. And maintaining the same safety with less electrolyte would involve higher development costs. There's a sliding scale where something is just too cheap/dangerous to sell at high volume to a general audience.

Hopefully these high quality CT scans show the battery makers that people are going to notice when too many corners have been cut, even if there isn't a flood of reports of their product causing fires (yet).