No, Murky. He is saying when you are set to Auto that adjusting the intermittent setting affects the sensitivity. He's right.
That is true - it does have an effect, and I think it kind of does what the engineers had in mind.
But in my experience it's still just as dumb/inconsistent regardless of the sensitivity set by the intermittent speed dial.
I've messed around with it a bit to make sure that I wasn't being dense... So I feel confident enough in my testing to say that it's just bad. IMO.