The newer boosters with auto-leveling legs would've been able to survive, and even this booster was still chained down wherever octograbber failed to secure. S

The newer boosters with auto-leveling legs would've been able to survive, and even this booster was still chained down wherever octograbber failed to secure. So it seems like they expected the risk of loss of the booster to be low, it just so happened that this time things went wrong. They have previously delayed launches due to poor weather at the barge. So if that was the case this time, they would've just postponed, unless I guess they weren't really worried about losing a life leader booster that was apparently too old to be worth retrofitting with autoleveling legs.