The argument for SSTOs was that staging was too scary. But experience since then shows this argument was bogus. Staging can be made highly reliable. Even a s

The argument for SSTOs was that staging was too scary. But experience since then shows this argument was bogus. Staging can be made highly reliable. Even a small amount of delta V provided by a first stage makes the job of the "almost SSTO" second stage much easier. And a low delta V first stage can be rugged, with high high safety factors, and is easy to recover at the launch site. Put another way: if you have an SSTO, its payload increases dramatically if you stack it on a very low performance recoverable first stage. I don't see any way SSTOs are going to be preferable to TSTOs, especially if the SSTO has to use hydrogen to get off the ground.