That's funny because I've been discussing about man-made space debris with a friend regarding the Artemis II mission, and they managed to find a perfect window to avoid all the thousands satellites and known/tracked millions debris orbiting earth.
I might be wrong, but I feel like they were only able to achieve it thanks to AI based radars and other tracking systems to define the perfect time and trajectory to avoid collisions with objects.
That might explain why they said they lost the tech to go back to the moon for decades, up until AI became something accessible and affordable. Because, unlike today, earth orbit was pretty clean, back then.
Today they are sending a DEI crew who's doing pretty much nothing but redundantly checking and reporting status/data that Ground Control could do and did with the previous unmanned Artemis mission.