It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed well

> For Artemis III and beyond, NASA is moving to a more permeable Avcoat material, which should allow them to reenter Orion without char loss and bring back a much larger downrange capability, Hill said.

Still glad they're updating for the future.

Even the most damning article I read back before the launch was confident the heat shield would work, but instead laid out how NASA had failed due diligence in testing to meet the threshold for human flight.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ddi792xdfNXcBwF8qpDUxmZz...

The much-maligned point is worth repeating — most posts gloss over exactly that.