We are all painfully aware of the things that make it imperfect.
It's still joyous and exciting.
Try to let it be.
If you ask 100 people in 1969 what humans would be doing in space in 57 years I can guarantee not a single person would guess that we've done nothing of substance. And that the most exciting thing we have done that involved human space travel is simply flying around the moon, people wouldn't believe it
This thread is pretty much how people felt back then too.
Only to the naive yet vocal minority, fortunately!
That's beyond exciting.
Remember that social media is a distortion of reality driven by whoever is willing to dedicate the most time and effort to dominating it.
This link, for example, "first glimpse of far side...[video]", is a video of the crew inside the craft. yawn It seems like every article I've read is like this. Like they're trying to encourage conspiracy theories.
We're talking about the unseen, far side of the moon, and they can't scrape together at least a still image of it?
The launch was in lower resolution than many shuttle launches I've watched.
Looking at the NASA.gov site, it is pale comparison of what it used to be. They seem to have opted for a few well polished articles and images, and they've jettisoned any semblance of passing along the data itself.