If you care about space you should be concerned about Elon Musk’s influence.

I am way ahead of that, if it were up to me he would be facing the wall already, my goal is not to defend that fucker.

He hyped up this sleek sci-fi starship for years and it turns out to be a janky-looking metal tube - you can assume there is good engineering reason, but I bet it’s because it’s actually shit.

Does it make a real difference though? Look at the cyber truck. The main complaint is it looks like a child drawing or something. If current Starship looked the same as the original design people would still shit on it based on looks. That is my only pet peeve here the "bet" you are making about the engineering quality should be based on the fact it keeps blowing up, not on how it looks.

Also the one NASA thinks they'll use doesn't look like a jank metal tube.