I didn't think the early SpaceX rockets did much that was technologically novel. The real reason why everyone expected the commercial crew program to turn into

I didn't think the early SpaceX rockets did much that was technologically novel. The real reason why everyone expected the commercial crew program to turn into big contractor grift is because they saw the same story play out 100 times before and 100 of those times the big contractors found a way to capture the money and send the project into development hell. The 101st time was different.