A spacecraft perhaps could inflate lots of impact balloons that would cushion impact, allowing landing in any orientation. Then on landing, rotate with gyros or something until the legs are underneath and that way end upright?
Edit: My point being: spacex is already doing it on earth, dealing with stronger gravity and air non linearity.
More seriously, the humans in question were very skilled pilots with huge amounts of general flight experience and specific lunar training; they also had access to hardware that had already been expensively tested in the lunar environment. Neither of those were available to this project.
It probably would have landed upright if the LIDAR worked. It is impressive that it landed as intact as it did
[0] https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/it-turns-out-that-odys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder#/media/File:Pa...
Having an atmosphere helps, though and that's not available on the Moon.