Interesting but firstly the shuttle would be more comparable to the starship regarding payload size. Secondly the shuttle could have been unmanned hence massive

Interesting but firstly the shuttle would be more comparable to the starship regarding payload size. Secondly the shuttle could have been unmanned hence massively reducing cost and security paranoid costs. Thirdly it's not just that the shuttle navets had higher capacity, in practice their payloads and missions were more complex than routine satellite launch AKA remote repairing hubble and building the ISS Finally had the shuttle been ran by a private company.. Economic efficiency would have been more aligned.