re: #252 JC1

It was a TEST flight with no people on board, and no cargo.
If their next flight fails in a similar way then you can more reasonably call this one a failure; that would mean they didn’t learn enough worthwhile things from it.

SpaceX has had a lot of failures over the years. Their rockets have improved after each one.

Launch success rate of NASA (only considers a successful launch, not a payload failure):

1950’s 43.6%
1960’s 85.1%
1970’s 93.5%
1980’s 96.0%
1990’s 93.9%
2000’s 94.7%
2010’s 94.7%

space.stackexchange.com

SpaceX themselves don’t give themselves as good a rating as NASA, and they list the Boca Chica launch as a failure.

en.wikipedia.org