Unimpressive, but simple and effective. We don’t have all our eggs in a tiny basket of reusable ships.
It’s too limited in utility. I know this great Country of ours can do better. This is just the “path of least resistance” answer to a temporary problem
We will have to develop another reusable vehicle at some point if we really intend to fully explore the planets. Why put it off? Why try to fool ourselves into thinking this throwback is even a temporary solution?
I guess we’ll have to get the Chinese to build us one, no?