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Yeah. If you look at the complete board shots, those chips are inside the sandwich of PCBs. So yeah, it was probably disassembled in an reflow oven without much care for the components.

1. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+14+Pro+Max+Chip+ID/15322...

Taking all the shielding off those chips is probably what destroyed the board. Without doing that though, these images would just have all the chips covered by shielding metals/alloys.

Not only that, in the previous picture you can see some smd components have been blown away as well.

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2022/09/18133340/iPhon...

I noticed that too. They might have been poking and prodding around with the different chips or something to see what is inside. That or it is the result of aggressively removing all the shielding. Sure threw me for a loop though.