It's a ... bonus feature. Most people judge it against their expectations, which may provide some emotional pleasure but is not helpful for work.
It does some things well. It does others just OK.
It has almost certainly been marketed as more useful than it is.
Do the things it does well save you time? Use them.
Overall does it cost you more time than it saves? Turn it off and ignore it until Adobe presents an overhauled version.
If you use it, come to grips with the difference between "
Photo contains named face-region" and "
Photo depicts person".
Personally, I like Lightroom's People View a lot. I think the People/Person UI is well done, as is the implementation within and integration with Lightroom.
In my use, I almost never add a face region (or whatever Lightroom calls it). I don't use People view to tag
people, I use it to tag
faces.
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I'm not sure what the OP means by
"Correcting" implies changing something that was set. Lightroom suggests a Face-Name (again, not sure of Lightroom's nomenclature) for a region it thinks may be a face. If the suggestion is correct, I click the check mark. If the suggestion is wrong, I drag the thumbnail to the correct already-saved Face-Name represented by a thumbnail at the top of the work area (the "Named People" section). If the region is not a face (or I don't want Lightroom to name and remember this region as a Named Face), I type (press and release) the {delete} key on the keyboard.
In practice this is quick. When I have scores of suggested Face-regions in the work area, I usually first ⌘-click all the regions I want to dismiss (creating a selection of multiple suggested Face-regions), and type (press and release) {delete}. Then I identify — either by checking a correct suggestion or filling in my own — one of each person in the work area whose face-regions I want to tag. After that it is simple work to either check correct suggestions or drag incorrect ones (keep the suggested Face-regions sorted by "Suggested Name" — this is set on the Toolbar).
Remember well: "Named Face" _
is a subset of_ "is person in Photo" — specifically, the Photos that have been given a Face-region assigned to a People keyword.
Imho, all the tech companies do users a disservice when they suggest an equivalence (and not a subset). _If_ your work involves _faces_, face-recognition can be handy and a time-saver. If your work involves tagging, grouping, and sorting by persons, I suggest simply using regular keywords.
My work involves faces. I am well-served by the presentation of many "head-shots" in People View — it lets me quickly scan dozens, scores, hundreds of Photos in order to select by facial expression.
NB: The Lightroom Queen's section on this is
exemplary (The Missing FAQ, p. 151ff).