The myths of VRS have been debunked on this forum before, the aircraft would need to be moving through it's downwash at near downwash velocity which is quite difficult to do.
I have tried to explain how that can happen in a situation where the downwash velocity is very low.
VRS certainly isn't a myth.
It maybe in this case that he didn't overpitch but just stopped pulling at his normal power maximum - which wasn't enough