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You say you're not an Elon fan boy but you've gone to great lengths in this comment to bend the truth to make spacex look more favourable.

You can see the giant splashes in the ocean from the debris. That is not a "fist size" object cresting a metre tall splash. https://youtu.be/nocHO-ScR3c?si=HuzQVtnpgLqkprtC

You leave out that certain wildlife groups were allowed in, it was specifically the fish and wildlife service who weren't allowed in because they're part of thr government and could shut the operation down, whereas the other group didn't have that power.

The paragraph about the flame diverted is pure white knighting. Everyone in the rocketry community knew they needed either a flame diverted or a deluge system. Even spacex knew this, but a combination of expense and wanting to get publicity soon caused Elon to insist on the launch even though everyone knew this would happen after the damage from the static fire. You even say this yourself. Spacex knew this would happen but didn't give a shit, because keeping Elons ego up is more important to them than the risk of destroying a nature preserve.

This is just arguing semantics. The concrete underneath the launch mount (and now the rocket bidet) are still part of stage 0 which most people would call the launch pad. And if you wanted to get more specific then it would be more accurate to say the concrete IS the launch pad and the OLM is just the tower.

How is it not grounded? They can't fly again until after the investigation and they get another launch licence. That means they are defacto grounded?

The date of the article doesn't matter. The quote about it not being ready was from documents written just after launch. Which was 4 months ago now. Andits likely it won't launch for at least another month, so I would say 5 months is long enough to make that statement fair.

and they were satisfied that SpaceX was going to do things responsibly enough and within guidelines

Which had absolutely nothing to do with Elons promises of large amounts of money and has received no pishback whatsoever from environmental groups that aren't being paid off.