However, the craziest of those attempts are Ares I and Boeing SRB-X, whose nasty g-forces make them unreliable for both crew and cargo.
Well SLS is nothing like that, the ascent profile is nothing really out of the ordinary. A very "classic" rocket, and that's why I like it. Maybe too classic, we'll see. That matches my personal representation of what is a rocket : expandable inline stack with boosters.