I think far more important than a simple summary statistic of top 20 in-state players, is peeling back the layers to find out the why (they aren't committing to Texas) and the who (is replacing them from OOS or lower in-state).
@Ketchum already commented on the "Why"...seems primarily it was a weird year. We had a top WR have strong legacy ties to Tech, we have a staff that for whatever reason never really pushed hard for Bussey (I disagree here and think we should have but the staff doesn't seem to have a clean projection for him). Georgia came in and stole our lunch on Justin Williams and JJA - happens, they obviously have quite a few skins on the wall to show recruits, especially on defense. Our RB recruiting seemed to favor two OOS players - I'll go ahead and trust Choice on that front as he's earned that. OL I wasn't a huge fan of the in-state crop this year - IMO we got the best Interior OL Center prospect in Cruz; I think he'll be a stud. Then we got our 2024 can't miss guy in Simmons. On QB, I think we got the perfect post-Arch Manning QB recruit we could have - a guy who is willing to sit in our system and learn for 2-3 years, and I think his senior tape is pretty damn compelling. Hard to be overly critical on the in-state haul this year, regardless of what the ranking stats say.
I'm not sure I love the WRs ranked highly, so I could see why Sark and Jackson would evaluate elsewhere...which leads me to the "who".
Who are we replacing some of these "in-state misses" with. On receiver, we went and secured a 5* out of Missouri - that'll do. I discussed RB recruiting above, time will tell on that, but I'm of the opinion that Choice has earned the benefit of the doubt with how good our RB room has been.
We went and secured the best RT prospect in the country from powerhouse Mater Dei - that'll do and then some. We went into LA and FL to secure some big commits (literally) with Hills (iDL), Mack (Nickel, CB) and Robinson (DT), especially when the Texas iDL prospects were lacking.
Overall, this discussion just needs a more complete picture than saying "we missed on 16 top 20 kids! Need to do better!". I'm not implying Ketch is saying this, in fact, I think he captured it well. But as long as the why and who are answered, I really don't care where these kids come from - it's silly to have that outlook in modern football in 2024.