The change from landing in the Pacific to the Indian Ocean is really interesting but I haven’t seen much detail about why it’s happening. The best I’ve come up with is that Starlink improvements allow for enough telemetry that the Pacific Missile Test Range facilities aren’t needed any more, but it would be great to find out more about why it’s changed.
I think that NASA is happy. It’s a very tight timeline for starship and the spacesuits from Artemis, but, despite decades of work and plentiful funding, Orion seems to be the slowest part of the critical path. I think that we’d be hearing a lot of public criticism if SpaceX was dragging the chain.