I use face detection in LV, it works even better on the G1X III as a matter of a fact vs the M5.
As I said, the AF firmware has gotten smarter, even though it's the same DPAF APS-C with a DIGIC7 as the M5, Canon's obviously beefed up their AF algorithms and baked em into the G1X III.
I am, however, gravitating towards treating my G1X III more like my former M5, that is favoring Smooth Zone AF and Single point (neither of which use face detection), with continuous AF off. I'll try that for a while, probably a week, see if I prefer tack sharp focus, or the speed of continuous AF on, but leave Live + tracking as the AF method if so.
If you leave continuous AF on, Live + tracking works REALLY well on the G1X III, that is you can just set it, and forget it. It'll think for you, and when you need to override, tap your subject, bam, done. Very simple, very fast, very effective. Comes at the cost of micro AF, but that's a small price to pay for just focusing on shooting, and never touching your AF setup. You'll get samples akin to the ones before yesterday.
The problem with the M5, is that with DPAF, it (DPAF) feeds the DIGIC7 alot of data, if you confine it's AF search parameters it becomes much more responsive as it's less data it has to process. Thus smooth zone AF and single point lead to better results on it. On the G1X III, they've improved continuous AF, and the search algorithms to bridge the gap, now the DIGIC7 can chomp the data efficiently in Live + tracking (auto).
The other issue I've found is AI servo on the EOS M5, leads to slight shifts in focus, thus I used single shot all the time, and AI servo only as needed for tracking sports activities, kids in swings, bikes, etc etc. Continuous AF appears to also lead to this slight shift in focus, I just didn't put two and two together to make four till yesterday.
I need to test both together, that is continuous AF and AI Servo and see if it too leads to additional drift. Probably not since continuous AF appears to operate in the same way servo does, it's just doing it automatically on the subject it thinks you might shoot next behind the scenes. It's kinda nice actually is you get to see focus instantly as you pan the camera.