Nope, everyone knows that landing the first stage is an incredibly difficult problem to solve, right? I was simply saying that they have a lot of time and money to solve it because they have a profitable business that doesn't depend on them solving it. Lots of startups are VC backed long shots. Most startups fail because they run out of money. It seems to be the way the market is played these days. SpaceX is kept private, for example, so it doesn't have to be held hostage by public markets. That's rare for most companies.
That's a perfectly nice point, but it's also obvious. Were you stating such an obvious thing "because we're all a bunch of fucking idiots"?
Your original post's wording really seems to be wishing other startups could get away with that kind of waste as long as their core product is good, not wishing they were trying to massively eliminate waste.