Don't mince words with me, you know as well as I do that the operative word in that clause was "approaching", which is to say that it is not an example of realism but it is far more realistic and disturbing than the series norm up to this point.
The act of tearing someone's head off with his hands isn't the crux of the issue, it's the presentation. When Kratos tore off Medusa's head it was violent but it was also heavily stylized, almost comical, so that you could say "cool!" instead of "gross". Taking off Euryale's head had the same thing going for it, even though that was a considerably more brutal scene.
The difference here is that the art direction is leaning toward gore as a stand-in for spectacle, which does not work as well as the series' previous stylization.
Again. "Approaching realistic" does not mean "partaking in realism", it just means "more realistic than the previous norm." Watching the skin on Helios's neck tear so that it revealed the muscle tissue underneath it before his head came off was gross. It wasn't funny, it wasn't cool, it wasn't bad-ass, it was just gross.
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