There was no precedent set by Starlink. What they did was already allowed and many other constellations have been launched previously. Some into the low 100s in

There was no precedent set by Starlink. What they did was already allowed and many other constellations have been launched previously. Some into the low 100s in total satellites. Starlink just has much larger amounts than any previous constellation and they're reasonably large as generally there was somewhat of an inverse correlation in satellite size and the number of satellites in the constellation.