Did you watch the intro of the video?
They clearly say that this isn't the usual test, but a real life scenario where you have an HDD and you buy an SSD to clone the HDD, something very common these days.
And why isn't the comparison fair? People don't care about the theoretical limits of untypical scenarios, the comparison is fair as it goes along with the typical use case.
Try to be more open minded man, the video is useful and not an HDD-geek's fantasy, move on.