Oh, yeah, I'm sure that's all it is......./s
Well, considering this IS the culmination of commercial products designed to please customers, yeah.
The halo effect is consistent with standard compression artifacts. Invert, merge, sharpen, merge, more readable result.
...and all you guys have is “I don’t understand, therefore it’s proof of a conspiracy even though I can’t explain why anyone would go thru the effort to do something obvious for no discernible benefit but instead create a document which, if accepted at face value, is proof of ineligibility!”