Originally Posted by
ORAC
Artemis III was never planned as a lander, just a circum-lunar flight.
I haven’t been following this in massive detail but are you sure about that?
My understanding of the original plan was that Artemis II performs the first circum-lunar flight, then there was supposed to be/probably be an unmanned landing by the chosen landing system, a flight which would not be given an Artemis number, then Artemis III would be the first crewed landing attempt.