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The explosion that flipped it was an anti-tank mine, which likely would render it unusable anyway. They have larger demining vehicles. This is an efficient device to clear paths for infantry or sappers.
Depends on what you want to use it for. For non-combat use, you're right, it should be fine, and the operator can take time to manually flip it back over as needed.
But for combat use to prepare for a path for an assault, the operator doesn't want to run out in the middle of a field to flip over a RC deminer because they have a good chance of being shot by the enemy, spotted and targeted by FPV drones, etc.
And given the density of minefields in this conflict, manually flipping the RC deminer after each and every anti-tank mine that it encounters would be both tedious and dangerous.
Also, this thing is mostly air where the flails meet the mines. If they could get the flail mechanism to be durable enough to survive a few mine strikes, and keep the drive and electronics sufficiently protected against large explosions.
Also, if they could make these things cheaply enough to where they could unleash hordes of these things to clear the minefield before an assault...