If you're referring to the first answer, the last update is almost a month older than the article I posted. Are you referring to something else?
If not, are you suggesting the article I posted is lying? There are a bunch of articles on this topic/flag, which were posted on the same day as the link I wrote earlier (17th of April).
I just tried in todays Edge Canary - the AVIF image is not shown correctly, but the flag does make Edge attempt to load it. Since it's the Canary branch you know there is a good chance it's just broken in the current build, right?