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Yeah, that's what we've been told.
We were also told this wasn't an issue to begin with, and issue after issue has happened. So, sorry if at this point I don't take what Boeing says about their vehicles at face value.
NASA is reliant on manufacturer info for a lot of things, and that is coming from Boeing. We now know for a fact that Boeing has falsified manufacturing and safety information for over a decade with nearly a dozen whistleblowers coming forwards on the airliner side of the business now, and more every day. If you honestly think that the spacecraft side was 100% insulated from that company culture, I've got some great stuff to sell you.
They assume it can maneuver. They assumed it would dock correctly the first time, before there were multiple failures as well. The last time it moved was to dock with the station and multiple thrusters were inoperative and took quite a bit of time to get working again to dock in the first place. We don't know that those will work without issue again. Those thrusters have already failed once while up there, failing again isn't exactly unlikely.
The helium leaks weren't and still aren't an issue for the mission. They are an issue that should be addressed in the future, but they pose no safety risk as things currently stand. While Starliner is docked, it won't even be leaking any helium. The tanks are sealed shut when they aren't in use, and since the leaks aren't on the tanks themselves, they aren't losing any helium as long as they stay docked.
The thruster failures are also not necessarily related to the leaks. They don't know why the the thrusters shut down, but they were shut down in software and not due to some piece of hardware failing. Their current goal is to figure out why the software shut them down, and why 4 of the 5 that shut down were able to be restarted without issue. They aren't just assuming it can maneuver either, they know it can because the thrusters aren't broken. It didn't require any physical repair work to get them firing again, it took a restart.
Remember, this is just a test flight, and nothing that's happening is outside the scope of the test.