What did you expect them to say, Bowser?
That the billions and years they spent making them happen was all a big mistake,
or at least a diversion from the real goals? And in public, no less?
I had always hoped we would have had humans on Mars in the 1980s, as they
originally planned. But now that likely would have been abandonded as well
before any colonies would have been started.
Give technology a few more years and you will see machines and AI doing
just as good a job if not better for the scientific exploration of the Sol system
and beyond. If you want to colonize the Sol system with humans, then use
humans. But don't waste extra billions just trying to get a better core sample
or a faster examination of some rocks with a human.