Operationally successful = All planes delivered bombs on target and returned home before is was published to the press on Signal. No one is arguing against this. Our Military can do things other nations cannot like replenishing fuel and weapons for ships while traveling at 20+ knots in a heavy fog. We don't do the complex missions or exercises for the sake of doing them, we do them to be able to complete a mission objective.
Operationally Effective = objective of the mission is realized. On this one we can't even get the White House, Pentagon and Director of National Intelligence to agree on what the objective was. Granted there can be multiple objectives but Hegseth can't get them out in order without sounding drunk. Trump is focused on planes flying a dropping bombs "The pilots pulled off something never seen before!!!" and only occasionally remembers that you have to assess effectiveness of the bombing. Can you imagine an oncologist who was only concerned with delivering the chemo and not whether it killed the cancer?
Was the Objective to:
Prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear bomb in the next 2-5 years? - Unknown, saying there is a setback is fair but how big?
Destroy the infrastructure to enrich uranium beyond 60% - Unknown, sure bombs were dropped but there is no BDA on the facilities under the mountain just satellite images from above. Analysts said before the operation that it could take successive missions.
Destroy all current 60% uranium stockpiles - Unlikely, some reports are saying the stockpiles were moved before the mission.
Cripple the corporate knowledge, research arm of Iran by killing the scientists - Partially effective.
The people at the podiums are not serious people who can wait for the assessments to be complete so they front run it with their sensational stories because it doesn't matter if they are right when the real mission is something else.