Comments by "User 2C47" (@user2C47) on "Newsthink" channel.

@BBQ BEER FREEDOM Not quite, as everything in Starship is reused. It's designed to not require refurbishment. For example, rather than inspecting and drying tens of thousands of unique tiles (and almost rebuilding the entire vehicle), you just need to check that none of the uniform hexagonal tiles are broken. The vehicle is likely designed to test itself for most other faults. This is probably a bad example because the booster is reused a lot more rapidly than Starship and lacks a TPS.
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@BBQ BEER FREEDOM The cheapness of a rocket where both stages can RTLS and immediately launch again means you can simply brute force your way to the destination for less cost than launching a slightly more efficient but expendable rocket.
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Because trying to land a stage means risk. If the first stage doesn't land perfectly the first time (Real example: if a landing leg fails), the risk-averse politicians in Congress will consider it a failed project and shut it down forever. SpaceX can do what it does because top-level management is an engineer, rather than hundreds of politicians.
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