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Even I, the staunchest of doomers and consumer/proliferator of blackpills, can at least believe that as shitty as SS currently is we are more likely than not observing temporary problems that will get solved by SX. The issue is that this program's vibe went from a 4-6 yr thing to seemingly now a 7-10+ yr thing. Won't stop if from working eventually through brute force, though. It will put many Starlink satellites up into earth orbit and land Man back on the Moon.
It's not some "fundamentally flawed" design—that is a retarded assertion. They have F9 and FH working like a fine-tuned clock, and have already demonstrated Super Heavy landing and reuse. And the upper stage Ship has done similar feats (despite having a recent string of unfortunate luck or some other sort of languorous mistake from the drafting table)
The difference maker here, I think, is Elon's attention span; if he 'battened down the hatches' so to speak and went back to his Starbase home and drove the team like mules with some huge incentive / centralized goal for getting upper stage reuse, fuel transfer, and HLS demo done, the program could get back on track. But that is a separate discussion for another day