I think you are trying too hard to fit those comments to your narrative. Even if starship fails to fully achieve the very optimistic estimates on every one of

I think you are trying too hard to fit those comments to your narrative. Even if starship fails to fully achieve the very optimistic estimates on every one of those fronts, the starship program can be very successful. HN has in my experience been fairly supportive of Starship's chance of success while pushing back on some of the wildly optimistic claims made about the program.