> Starship now is arguably as successful as NASA's SLS rocket

Remember when the Artemis 1 first stage lost structural integrity just after staging and blew up, then the upper stage FTS activated before reaching orbit? Good times.

Oh wait, no, that didn't happen. The booster operated as expected, the Orion spacecraft spent six days in a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the Moon and returned to earth after about three weeks. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on December 11 and was recovered and returned to the Port of San Diego.