The falcon 1 immediately preceded the falcon 9 and was the only prior orbital spacex rocket, it had 3 failures and then 2 successes... The falcon 1 was much sm

The falcon 1 immediately preceded the falcon 9 and was the only prior orbital spacex rocket, it had 3 failures and then 2 successes... The falcon 1 was much smaller than the falcon 9 (literally 1/9th the engines on the first stage), and they intended the very first falcon 1 launch to work. I'm not sure that those failures really support the claim that falcon 9 had a similar development model to starship where they are intentionally blowing up starships to develop starship (edit:) and they have already blown up more than 3 starship prototypes.