> Least we forget they promised cheap international travel via rocket, without any safety mechanisms, that takes 40 minutes to get around the world, to start being operational next year.

No, they did not. The earliest date anyone put on that was Shotwell, who in 2018 said "within 10 years". So the deadline to miss is 2028.

I don't think that's particularly realistic either, at least for humans, but let's not invent even more wild estimates than what SpaceX puts out.