Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions.

But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief
(including actually landing Starship and making the spacecraft fully reusable),
as well as a litany of painful design flaws, such as only being able to take 50% of its promised payload capacity to orbit,
many are starting to question the viability of this idiotic machine
and its “iterative design process.”.

And so they should.
Indeed, with the most recent launch failure as context,
it becomes evident that Starship was doomed from the get-go
and that SpaceX might never be able to rectify this mess

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning