What’s the point of the Newark Airport Express Bus? Is it now faster than NJ Transit in the congestion pricing era?

When I’m flying in/out of Newark, my maps app sometimes recommends that I take the CoachUSA “Express to NYC” bus that runs from the each of the airport terminals to stops on 41st and 42nd Street. The schedule suggests that although the bus takes a direct route from the terminal to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the trip still takes a pretty long time — as much as 100 minutes or more to get from the airport to the city. https://www.coachusa.com/airport-transportation/newark-airport/stop-information

I usually take the Airtrain (which admittedly sucks right now) to NJ Transit (which also kind of sucks) to Penn Station. But even if you figure it takes an extra 20 minutes to get to the EWR train station, it’s only ~17 minutes or so to NYP once the train arrives. It also costs a little less to take NJ Transit: $17 for one adult train ticket, while the express bus is $25.

But is the express bus faster door-to-door? Maybe in the era of congestion pricing, the bus is now much faster than the schedule says? Thanks so much, have wondered about this after my last few EWR flights.