Do people ever seriously edit video on the iPad?

Oh my goodness, absolutely.

You're not going to edit a feature film on it, but for anything that's just filming a few minutes of different things and editing then together and posting/sending it wherever, it's a godsend.

Whether you're a professional actor taping a last-minute audition from your hotel room, a sales manager putting together an instructional video on site, or a high schooler putting together a classroom project.

Huh. I had completely written off that use-case because literally any time I've wanted to do anything at all, I've found that whatever movie editing software I'm trying at the time can't do it. So instead of wasting time by trying to edit on iOS, regardless of how simple what I want to do is, I always just copy it to my laptop or desktop and do the editing with real software on a real computer.

But maybe there exists better options. I can't say I have invested in expensive video editing software on iOS. (Not that I've ever had to on macOS or Linux though.)

I didn't think the camera was good enough on ipads for decent video, but turn your back for six years and look what happens.

I used to.

For about 6 months iMovie had this crazy bug on my iPad pro that made it extremely laggy.

The software side of iOS is definitely suffering lately, and somethings on the ipad have felt like a downgrade.