In my case that was accurate - man I went through everything twice, some things three times and it ended up, thankfully, being swapped vanos plugs. It was literally as easy as swapping the plugs and everything was right with the world!
In this case, that picture would have probably saved me 20 additional hours of diagnostic work and trouble shooting - not to mention I wouldn't have had to pull the VCs again... Lived it and learned, I REALLY hope your issue is that straight forward.
Shoot me some history and I'll see if it rattles anything loose in my head

Sounds like you may have just finished a VSS job?