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I'm conflicted on this. Artemis is a well designed political juggernaut, but NASA has budget and priority issues that the big expensive rocket, capsule, and station throw a wrench into. I'm hoping the redesigned Mars Sample Return works out and paves the way for a SpaceX and Blue Origin based redesign of Artemis.
Even if the program sticks with Orion, I'm hoping later missions will try bidding out flights and cutting SLS out of the picture. I'm hoping that's at least part of the purpose of spinning all of SLS off into a commercial entity.
If anything, I think they're moving in the opposite direction of what you suggested for landers. They're building up an industrial base of different companies building lunar landers for cheap.