The administration has admitted an error was made. That's the difference here, if something like this happens under Biden they just deny anything happened, even in the face of the published signal chats (see cheap fakes and Biden's senility, the border is secure etc.)
In regard to Hegseth the previous SoD went awol...twice.
Accountability? Zero.
The US put out their war withdrawal plans for the world to know that resulted in the disaster in Afghanistan including 13 dead Marines.
Accountability? Zero.
I'm good with the orange administration admitting it's mistake and then moving on, merely acknowledging it happened already puts them light years ahead of the previous clown show.