Artemis I was most definitely just a test flyby. It wasn't a mission of any kind beyond completing the trip to the moon and back.
That being said, I'm in the camp that the Artemis program is a massive resource suck and shouldn't exist, and NASA's budget would be much better spent elsewhere. There's no need for the government to be in the business of launching anything anymore, especially at a price tag of over $1B per launch with a comically long turnaround time in-between. They should be focused on landers, rovers, orbiters, deep space imaging, asteroid deflection, and anything else research related.