There are so many individual features in this program that have never been done or even attempted before. That's "Advanced" in my book. Yes, they attached it to an overly ambitious program that is rife with delays (and hubris) but the program started on its own, is the best path to making the 2028 landing happen (it won't), and on its own is incredible.
Starship is at this point probably not even the best path to making a 2028 landing happen.
How many of those things that have never been done/attempted before sit downstream of poor strategic decisions?