If your point is that I am dismissing this page in history because I use the word disappointment, well, I disagree. If the stated intent of the mission was to recover the safe with the nuclear codes and protocols, and we didn’t get that safe, it was a disappointment. Did I say “failure”? Of course, not, it was a tremendous achievement, who could have ever believed we could pull such a thing off and see any success whatsoever? And yet we did! Amazing! But really, at what point is it not disappointing when you don’t achieve your primary objectives, no matter how impressive your attempt?
But since nobody will ever officially admit that we did get the whole thing, as outsiders looking in all that can be said is it's still amazing but officially a disappointment.
I'd like to think we got the whole boat though. That would be so cool, imagine walking the passageways of a soviet ghost sub at the height of the cold war!