"In the coming decades, Voyager 1 will be joined by other craft sent along solar-escape trajectories: the Pioneer probes, New Horizons, and more. And now that we’ve crossed this #astrophysical threshold, we are forced to ask a difficult question: Is this it? Is this all we’ll ever accomplish beyond the Solar System, a scattering of wayward probes sent out into the infinite night?"

Human ambition, meet scale of effectiveness.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/get-comfortable-in-the-solar-system-well-be-here-for-a-while/

We can leave the Solar System, but arriving anywhere is not happening soon

What if we dropped interstellar ambitions and focused on understanding our home system?

Ars Technica