Honestly I think your bias is showing here. There were many failures. The self destruct should have worked, and they did not expect to basically blow up the lau

Honestly I think your bias is showing here. There were many failures. The self destruct should have worked, and they did not expect to basically blow up the launch pad. I get that no one expected the rocket to work perfectly, and so the expectation is that it was going to go up and explode. That's reasonable, and I've watched other SpaceX flights with similar expectations (and occasional explosions) while considering those a success. But there were multiple failures here, even inside of those parameters. Their safety systems, which were supposed to work, failed. They also failed to safely launch the rocket, in the sense that they scattered debris from the launch pad over hundreds of acres. Both of those can reasonably be considered massive issues that should not have happened.