No way it was a real lab. Too much risk to reveal something just from the tools or devices present. The viewers would analyze every pixel visible and it’s too much effort to clean up a real lab of what secrets it could reveal and a lot easier to build a real-looking lab out of things you can safely display.

Not sure if such a lab would be even open to all employees at Apple from what I hear.

Everything at Apple is need-to-know and compartmentalized.

Case in point, try looking up Linus Torvalds' workspace video on youtube. :) There's quite a bunch of stuff in there, incl. home owner's association paperwork, addresses, etc.

It’s just instagram dysmorphia is making its way in to everything.

Soon engineers will be staging their workstations and benches so they look like the Kardashian I mean Apple selfies.

It would be a pain, literally, to work in such lab. No ergonomics. Just imagine doing a full working day with those stools, debugging circuits and all.