paid photographer $10k and got obviously AI edited photos, reasonable to be mad?

just did a company offsite (~40+ people) and hired a photographer for about $10k.

got the photos back and at first was pretty excited - turnaround time was crazy fast (<2 days) and photos looked good on the surface.

But looking into them more, some weird tells - faces are weirdly smoothed / slightly uncanny, eyes glistening just a bit too much, everything is super overpolished. I showed my headshot to one friend and he said "this isn't...you".

worst of all, the guy denies using AI at all, just said he has a quick editing pipeline.

is this a reasonable thing to be pretty annoyed about? is there anything i can / should do in the situation or should just accept it. would love to hear from actual photographers if this was unethical and if it's reasonable to ask for a refund / re-editing or should just let it go

edit: example photo