At which point, does the momentum based GD helps really in this figure?

Classical gradient descent algorithms sometimes overshoot and escape minima as they depend on the gradient only. You can see such a problem during the update from point 6. In classical GD algorithm, the update equation is $$\theta_{t+1} = \theta_{t} - \eta \times \triangledown_{\theta} \ell$$ In the momentum based GD algorithm, the update equations are $$v_0 = 0$$ $$v_{t+1} = \alpha v_t + \eta \times \triangledown_{\theta} \ell $$ $$\theta = \theta - \eta \times \triangledown_{\theta} \ell$$ I am writing all the equations concisely by removing the obvious variables used such as inputs to loss functions. In the lecture I'm listening to, the narrator says that momentum-based GD helps during the update at point 6 and the update will not lead to point 7 as shown in the figure and goes towards minima. But for me, it seems that even momentum-based GD will go to point 7 and the update at point 7 will be benefited from the momentum-based GD as it does not lead to point 8 and goes towards minima. Am I correct? If not, at which point does the momentum-based GD actually help?