I've found NASA's communication to be misleading in general. A while back I tried to dive into their spinoff claims, and there were a lot of exaggerations there

I've found NASA's communication to be misleading in general. A while back I tried to dive into their spinoff claims, and there were a lot of exaggerations there. There's a reason why you hear press releases from NASA saying things like "Research done on the ISS could help cure Alzheimers!", but you don't hear Alzheimer researchers going "Man, that research on the ISS really helped us piece together what was happening." Or "NASA says there's going to be a major announcement tomorrow about a discovery on Mars!", and the discoveries are usually "we've found yet more evidence that Mars used to be wet." Even the missions themselves - there's been a lot of talk about how Perseverance is collecting samples as the first part of a mission to send them back to earth. But the difficulty is in launching a return flight from Mars, something we're nowhere close to being able to do at the moment. You have to wonder how much of the sample caching is really useful, and how much is just a way to look as if were making progress on something that's still incredibly far away.