My take after a few days...
The incident itself was probably a bad shoot. Notice these were not ICE agents, but Border Patrol, who are used to working on the frontiers and have limited interaction with American citizens acting in this disruptive capacity. Majority BP encounters are likely either compliant illegal aliens or aggressive narco/human traffickers, both groups have limited rights and expectations to civil liberties unlike US citizens.
Bovino has a history of running hot and heavy, especially in the Southwest. You can agree or disagree with the methodology and results, but these are facts. Noem and Lewandowski gave him this de-facto "Commander At Large" title and put him in these high-optics situations, again, for better or worse.
One thing I will say is Noem is stupid for blowing her mouth off conflating carrying a pistol and "extra magazines" with intent to do mass harm to BP agents. This sets a bad precedent if you're in favor of 2A and all that goes along with it. You cannot determine intent by mere presence of a weapon, especially one that is lawfully processed and lawfully carried, which Pretti was doing. This doesn't ameliorate the fact that he should've minded his own business, but these again are facts.
I have no doubt Homan will continue carrying out the enforcement actions, but in a way that is more optically-palatable to the masses of normies. I know most of us have no problem with street sweeps and mass deportations conducted like THE SEIGE with metros sealed off and agents going block-to-block rounding up illegals, but this is visually unacceptable to normies and we must understand that. Homan works methodically and rationally, preferring to draw mass media attention to the rapists, chomos, murders, etc. that very few can defend.
Remember that people look to see themselves reflected in the media, especially in victims. Speaking to this, Pretti is the most 'normal' person so far the left has as a martyr - Good was a divergent lesbian with questionable parenting credentials and George Floyd was a criminal Fentanyl enthusiast.
In the end, I'd rather see Homan take full reigns over ICE/BP operations domestically and be "Commander At Large" and Noem can go count boxes of MREs for FEMA distribution and worry about airport scanners. She's not cut out to do this.
Just my worthless opinion...