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You should've seen the build-up to creating self landing rockets. It was like a fireworks shows every launch, until one day they nailed it - and now it's become near to mundane. The same thing is happening today, except with something even more revolutionary.
It would have been a failure if they didn't get any further than their last launch.
The problem is, there’s a lack of humility, and no one knows what it’s like to be humble anymore.
Of course it is, they had go fix all the problems with the last launch to get further, and that's already insanely difficult. They succeeded at the hot staging and almost made it to orbit altitude with the Starship. If you think that's a failure, there's no point discussing any more.
Also in my experience the least humble people are the ones lecturing others about their lack of humility.
Everyone was hoping for success, but they were realistic of the chance.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-...
It'd be like me, as a PhD student, trying to claim that this money was stolen funding from PhD students.
I did check your comments and you seem to have a negative spin on most of your comments.
Maybe their tone is not compatible to yours. But gross and delusional seem wrong considering what they have accomplished so far.
Their work is inspiring and deserves the praise and positivity.
Though of course, even the most negative cynical person can make this whole by rationalizing that the line employees cheering are cheering the flaming end of a death march (and channeling all of their suppressed 'i told you so's), while trying to blind themselves to the next upcoming death march.
Why is it so difficult to understand? I'm sure you know the odd of 10 things failing is not 10 times of a single failure, but much higher.
“I don't know why you're celebrating their failure to stay standing.”
They'll get there with Starship too, if not too obstructed by red tape or unrelated Twitter/politics stuff.