Thanks for the suggestion @spikeyxxx ! Increasing this setting does ameliorate the problem; understandable. I don’t want to increase this too much either as it’d slow down the viewport display and general smoothness of Blender.
Before posting this question, however, I did notice in this video, Lampel too has the same 32 samples set for viewport and his viewport looks a lot better (less/no? noise). Why is that?