Do you know the purpose of ablative material is to cool the nose cone by burning itself I guess the team clearly said that and it was published in a scientific journal for peer review. Anyway, we are debating past the water under the bridge. China has an operational DF 17 even DF27 a hypersonic missile that they have tested 9 times and they all hit the bull mark. So you can believe what you want to believe!
SCMP clearly said that the team
The smooth, non-ablative surface not only kept critical components inside the aircraft cool, but allowed wireless signals to go in and out freely, making target identification and communication possible throughout the flight, according to analysis of telemetry data.
“The test flight ended in a complete success,” the team wrote in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Physics of Gases last month. They did not reveal the time and location of the test.