Doh! there's a better filter for this: photosensitivity. It detects local brightness changes that sum to 0, unlike deflicker and the Apple implementation (??).
drawgraph is a useful bodge to convert metadata to frames. This enables silly things like mimicking the Apple demo, including graphs.
frames=5
sensitivity=1.5
dim_range=2
dim_intercept=-0.4
smoothing=10
smoothtype=am
persistence=0.9
min_contrast=0.0
min_brightness=0.0
min_saturation=0.0
ffplay -vf "split[original], crop=640:360:0:0,
split=5[i1][i2][i3][i4][i5];
[i1]photosensitivity=$frames :$sensitivity,
drawgraph='bg=black@0 :r=60 :s=1x1 :m1=lavfi.photosensitivity.factor
:fg1=0x010101*round(0xff*clip(VAL*$dim_range+$dim_intercept,0,1))',
split[sensedat], deflicker=$smoothing :$smoothtype,
negate, lagfun=$persistence, negate, split[mit1][mit2];
[mit1][i2]scale2ref[mask][i2]; [i2][mask]alphamerge[m];
[mit2]signalstats[mitdat];
[i3]eq=$min_contrast :$min_brightness :${min_saturation}[a];
[a][m]overlay, split[output1][output2];
[sensedat]drawgraph=lavfi.photosensitivity.badness :0xffff0000
:bg=white :r=60 :slide=scroll :size=512x256 :min=0 :max=7[bad];
[bad][i5]scale2ref[badout][reuse];
[badout]drawtext=fontcolor=2222dd:text='frame %{metadata\:lavfi.photosensitivity.frame-badness}'[badout];
[badout]drawtext=fontcolor=0000ff:y=1.2*lh:text='badness %{metadata\:lavfi.photosensitivity.badness}'[badout];
[badout]drawtext=fontcolor=777700:y=2.4*lh:text='factor %{metadata\:lavfi.photosensitivity.factor}'[badout];
[mitdat]drawgraph=lavfi.signalstats.YAVG :0xff00ccdd
:bg=00000000 :r=60 :slide=scroll :size=512x256 :min=0 :max=255, vflip[factor];
[factor][badout]scale2ref[factorout][badout];
[factorout]drawtext=fontcolor=999900:y=3.6*lh:text='smoothed %{metadata\:lavfi.signalstats.YAVG}'[factorout];
[badout][factorout]overlay[rplot];
[i4]signalstats, drawgraph=lavfi.signalstats.YAVG :0xffff0000
:bg=white :r=60 :slide=scroll :size=512x256 :min=0 :max=255[lum];
[lum][reuse]scale2ref[lumout][reuse];
[lumout]drawtext=fontcolor=ff0000:text='%{pts\:hms} %{pts} %{eif\:n\:d\:5}'[lumout];
[lumout]drawtext=fontcolor=0000ff:y=1.2*lh:text='avg luma %{metadata\:lavfi.signalstats.YAVG}'[lumout];
[output1]signalstats, drawgraph=lavfi.signalstats.YAVG :0xff00ccdd
:bg=00000000 :r=60 :slide=scroll :size=512x256 :min=0 :max=255[mlum];
[mlum][lumout]scale2ref[mlumout][lumout];
[mlumout]drawtext=fontcolor=999900:y=2.4*lh:text='mitigated %{metadata\:lavfi.signalstats.YAVG}'[mlumout];
[lumout][mlumout]overlay[lplot];
[reuse][output2][rplot][lplot]xstack=4 :0_0|w0+30_0|w0+30_h0+20|0_h0+20, [original]hstack" \
'https://developer.apple.com/accessibility/downloads/video-flashing-reduction-fig12.mp4'
VLC: Tools > Preferences > Show settings: All > Search: antiflicker
(generate test video): antiflicker and deflicker are different implementations