SpaceX recently crossed the 2,000 satellite launch milestone, and has plans to launch 12,000 if not a great many more — so losing 40 of them might not be a huge deal in the grand scheme of things. Still, that’s the vast majority of an entire Falcon 9 rocket’s Starlink launch capacity burning up in the atmosphere.

Getting dangerously close to a cogent point there, The Verge, better copy-paste SpaceX's PR statement just to be safe.

If you have to rocket something up into space, you damn well better make sure that payload is ready for every eventuality, otherwise the whole endeavor quickly becomes a tremendous waste. Couple this with that booster that failed to separate and is now gonna crash-land on the moon, and nobody should be taking SpaceX seriously.