This was an interesting failure, I agree that if you don't break eggs now and then you aren't pushing hard enough. But I was particularly interested in the 3 engine test. Is SpaceX looking to abort/return to base on an engine out? I can see how it would be pretty amazing to land a satellite if you knew that you weren't going to have enough oomph to get it into orbit but I had not seen any mention of that. And the tests on the F9R in flight so far only needed 1 engine to return to the ground. So all in all an interesting test in a number of ways.