"Official" in only the strictest sense. Everyone has used Hepburn since forever, the government just got around to acknowledging that.

And thank the lord that the romanization of Japanese (with its few little quirks) is one of the simplest transliterations there is.

And, since the English equivalent of those sounds doesn't exist, there's no confusion the way there would be between "she" and "see" in english. Complaining that there's no english equivalent of the russian (взгляд / vzglyad)'s initial cluster would be similar in feel - no english words use it, so the romanization can be whatever you like, really.