Exactly. In fact, this is one of the few things I've heard in a while that the drums sound remotely contemporary.
Mind you, take a look at those screenshots of the DAW, and you'll see that, although he makes a point of emphasizing 'no sequencing', those are multiple tracks of different sounds, so he didn't lay all this down in one go! Not that that really matters, but someone will get the wrong idea sooner or later..!
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An arranger is just a tool. What matters is what you build with it..!