I'd make the point that it can, because {cost for relaunch} = {refurb cost} + {recertification cost}. And likewise, probability of relaunch success scales with

I'd make the point that it can, because {cost for relaunch} = {refurb cost} + {recertification cost}. And likewise, probability of relaunch success scales with the money and time spent on those other two. In fact, I'd strongly argue that fuel-to-orbit is Starship's version of Falcon's "Starlink demand seeding." It's win/win if SpaceX has a high-volume, low-payload-cost, revenue-generating demand for Starship, as it gives them a failure tolerant mission to push relaunches to failure and then use that data to improve future reuse reliability. Of all the things SpaceX has done, getting themselves into positive-feedback flywheels has been the smartest.