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Part of why it has "weird Demi god status" is that it is not only so reliable but also so cheap. Soyuz is not reusable. Falcon 9 is. That is why Falcon 9 is so celebrated. No other rocket company or state-sponsored space agency comes close to its track record of cheap, reliable, reusable rockets.

I might have missed it, but I’ve never seen a Soyuz booster fly twice, let alone 25 times.

Soyuz? an expendable rocket with 40% less payload capacity? How is that a competitor to falcon 9? More like a competitor to rocketlab's current generation.

It's been so weird to see people say willfully ignorant shit just because they don't like Elon Musk.

"though the launch vehicle is no different than the competitor like Soyuz"

That is ... so obviously and blatantly untrue. That is like saying that an old wooden biplane from 1917 is not different from Boeing 777.