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As already discussed on here on quite a few threads if you are not comfortable about a guest, including because of the example you have outlined, you can ask airbnb to cancel @Hampton.
Your wife can continue to use her ‘intuition’ under the updated guest photo policy just as she did under the old.
If you use IB absolutely nothing has changed. If you don’t all that will have changed is that you see the photo post booking.