It's exactly the way they applied VAR in the World Cup as well - use it as little as possible, and only when the ref has missed something blatant. Go with his decisions if there's any doubt. If you're going to use it at all, this should be how it's done.
Why oh why the Premier League decided that they needed to instead use VAR as much as possible to get every decision perfect to the nearest millimeter, and the final letter of the law, I'll never know.......
p.s. I think there's two English refs there - Anthony Taylor and Michael Oliver.