That image is probably close to a decade old, if I'm recalling correctly the first time I saw it, so it's definitely not the new technique. The image just looks good for a headline, especially since any actual picture of the new technique would likely look like unremarkable frosted glass at a macro scale.

They also claim it will last 13.8 Billion Years and this is the problem you have with it?

Press releases. Whatta-ya-gonna-do?

The 13.8Gy claim is made by estimating, calculating and then confirming by experiment how quickly wear and tear works (the primary mechanism is nanograting, and the primary contributing physical quantity is temperature). It then specifically grabs 13.8Gy as an example data point because that's the age of the Universe, but they could've picked any other point on a time/temperature scale, like, say, "room temperature".

Are you suggesting they pulled this out of their backside? The research very much supports that number.

No, 4MB.