Was Starship Launch 12 A Success?

The first sentence clearly shows this is not even attempting to be an unbiased report.

> The media buzz around Starship has officially died. I was expecting this “highly anticipated” launch to be painted across the headlines, but it seems people simply don’t care that another one of Musk’s giant phalluses exploded in the Indian Ocean. By all accounts, the polish on this turd has tarnished as people have grown tired of waiting for this “revolutionary” tech to actually materialise instead of being an expensive trash fire. This is one of Musk’s seriously bad patterns. He has overpromised himself into multiple corners, from self-driving cars to Mars-bound rockets and even pathetic C-3PO wannabes, and now people want him to put up or shut up. The trouble is, as we have seen with DOGE and the Cybertruck, Musk can’t deliver, but he likes to ‘look like’ he has — and this launch was yet another example. If you buy SpaceX’s line, they have made a serious step forward. But if you actually look at the launch with even a slightly critical lens, that narrative totally falls apart.

Yeah, I’m certain this guy considered all the facts and presented a balanced argument.

As much an assault at Elon as it is a ballanced evaluation on the mission. He correctly points out new, new and new while insinuating anything less than perfection is a failure. What ever happened to a ballanced review of successes and shortfalls? The lower stage got it up, but didn’t do a recoverable landing. Isn’t this about 50%? The upper stage did loose an engine, yet it met all of the mission objectives. If anything, this fact proved the Starship as very capable. With the on target, intentional 2 engine landing, it is a succes in my book, with admited room for improvement.