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Well, I guess that depends on what you define as an achievement.
In terms of skills and expertise there's only a handful living people with lunar experience and all of them are 60+ years old. It's important to pass these skills down from person to person as training manuals and videos aren't the same as an actual person passing on this wisdom. This one shouldn't really need any explanation.
For dick-measuring newspaper headlines, we did just send some humans farther into space than we ever have before. That's a tangible thing that's measurable; anyone can understand it.
For raw, practical science, somone who's a bigger nerd than me will have to tag in for that. What I do know and understand is we're launching more advanced technology with a ship that's both smaller in size with more interior space. We've got measurements of the astronauts in deep space and data on the far side of the moon. Regular people arguing over the importance of this data isn't going to produce anything conclusive.