Is it, though? I think you're stuck with the mindset that there's only one type of Starship when there isn't. There's a distinction to be made between cargo sh

Is it, though? I think you're stuck with the mindset that there's only one type of Starship when there isn't. There's a distinction to be made between cargo ships, tankers, and crew transport. The first uncrewed cargo flights have zero change of returning to Earth. There's simply no infrastructure for generating fuel and refuelling yet. So unless you want to tell me that Musk is some sort of space wizard able to conjure methane fuel into the tanks of the first cargo ships that land on Mars, this is exactly what's going to happen.