re: Should we really be surprised?
People were also wishing they would get a real engineer to run NASA and look at what you got. An ESAS architecture which even the majority at NASA doesn't support, but have no choice because it was rammed through by Dr. Griffin. The Science budget butchered because he don't know how to work with Congress. And an investigation because of erased tapes (shades of Nixon...).
It makes you wish for the good old days of O’Keefee
The Chinese warn, be careful of what you wish for, it may come true.