I'd agree that this is a new service for a direct injection turbo engine.
However, I'd also point out that there were an awful lot of naysayers (who am I kidding, there still are some) about using overhead cams in a pickup truck applications when the '97 F series made its debut claiming that they have no low end power and wouldn't last. Ford went from slightly larger displacement OHV engines to smaller displacement OHC engines with higher power and that seems to have worked out well for them, I think we can agree on that.