Love. It. (Wish the pics were better quality.) Thanks for the sleuthing.

While their comments don't state specifically, does it not look as if they indeed tried to anticipate the fact that the largely un-testable landing MO had many ways to send the sucker all golly-wampus?
And given their use of a Primary-cell for initial power (presumably for max. energy density) it looks as if quite enough of the roster got attended-to, from first contact; haven't yet checked-in today, to see if that snazzy sample probe got somehow to acquire some evanescent samples

The ESS (elect. support sys.) must have been a test of all logic yet explored re. Fail-safe, redundancy, idiot-proofing; hope they pass on whatever was innovative (12? 14 years ago) to see if it could have been built any better, at all(?)

Maybe a benign confluence, free via warming-assistance can reposition the lander enough for enough energy to try clever commands.. like using the legs' K.E. as "rockers", pushers etc. Anyway, deeming this to be some sort of massive failure, is an insult to all responsible for this near-perfect field-trip, ongoing.

Beats the NYT Crossword for Science Suspense..