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Yes, or considered another way 1/25th shutter vs almost 1/2000th, ie a lot of motion blur vs. virtually nothing will be able to provoke blurring

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Except a moving subject, of course.

At 1/2000th both a running cheetah and a running squirrel are completely frozen. I haven’t yet found anything that isn’t frozen with that setting. I suspect at that point you’re in the domain of bullets, very outstretched springs and the like.

Edit: yeah, a speeding bullet caught at 1/5000th: <https://flickr.com/photos/hoohaaphotos/5587502201/>

Stabilization doesn't help with subject movement, it only helps with the camera's shake.

So with this level of stabilization, you'll take a picture of a running cheetah at 1/25 as if it were 1/2000 only as far as the stability of the camera is concerned. So if you're not tracking the cheetah you'll get a sharp background because the shaking of your hands has been nullified, but the cheetah is still moving within the frame and still blurry.

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