>Falcon nine is the world's workhorse rocket, but it's just not that remarkable

Falcon delivered the vast majority of mass into orbit last year, and the year before that

>starship is utterly unproven to launch to orbit

It's already deployed test satellites into orbit. You're so intellectually dishonest you refuse to acknowledge things that have already happened.

Actually, no. Starship has deployed zero satellites to orbit. It pushed some dummy satellite simulator things out of its hilariously small satellite slot, which then fell back into the atmosphere. The starship upper stage has not completed an orbit. Neither have both stages of Starship ever been landed on those chopstick things. Elon is the Deepak Chopra of space enthusiasm. Neither of them are going to get you to Nirvana.