Yes, they made it. So what?

Yes, they made it. So what?
So they can raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean as they wished? At least, I do not think so.
We only know it was tough and hard for them to sail all the way from California to Hawaii, but how tough? We can never know what kind of difficulties they overcame during the past three months because it is not us that went through the whole process, so how can we possibly know that how urgent it is to stop polluting the ocean? I think the people whose awareness had been raised are them. So the whole action doesn't make sense at some point.
Whether it works or not, who cares? Still, there are people working very hard figuring out some ways to catch other people's attention claiming that they want to raise awareness. Whether the awareness has been raised or not, let's see...