Well the comparison is not what people think about Apollo 11 right now, but what they thought back then.

Back then, it was a big event that made the news worldwide.

Artemis II launched yesterday, and my non-engineer relatives and friends don't even know it happened (they don't even know it was planned).

It WAS global news, I assure you. Every major news agency and local news channels talked about it.

People don’t get their “news” from news agencies anymore, though. They get it from their social media algorithms, and if they have no prior interest in anything space or tangential to space, they won’t get news about it.

And if they did hear about it, it probably didn’t connect whatsoever, and their brain filled it away in the same place as “city bus makes successful stop at bus stop.” Because they couldn’t care less.

Culture is far less centralized, for better or worse.