We dont know for certain that the limits were broken in this case but it looks like it from the pictures.
Saying "We don't know for certain" before saying something that you cannot know doesn't let you off the hook, and you have rightly been berated for it. What they didn't say is that those videos were taken from a viewpoint using telescopic lenses so as deliberately to exaggerate the movement; that makes a better story, doesn't it? One of them was speeded up to achieve the same effect.
The notion that a Captain would, in order to land at a destination and not an alternate, deliberately flout X-wind limitations, thereby risking his life, crew lives and passenger lives, to say nothing of losing his job for irresponsible command decisions, and/or damaging an aircraft, is ridiculous.
If you haven't a clue it's best to remain quiet.