The Falcon 9 second stage doesn't survive reentry and the booster only needs to get through a partial reentry at much slower velocity.
Falcon 9 is an impressive and revolutionary vehicle. We don’t need to overstate the capabilities.
What Starship is doing is completely different from what Falcon 9 is doing. Falcon 9 is not the only other sub-orbital booster to propulsively land. Starship isn’t the only other spacecraft to survive hypersonic re-entry. It’s not even unique in being reusable.
Starship and Falcon 9 are incredible achievements. It’s simply not necessary to lie about their capabilities.
I realize re-lighitng main engines is novel but it isn't unique and even if it was that doesn't make the up-thread claims any less inaccurate.
Shuttle was a reusable orbital vehicle with multi-day endurance capable of hypersonic reentry. Falcon 9 is not that.