It most certainly didn’t reach its planned max q, not with 6 motors out and the rest with nozzles dented by rocks at ground escape velocity.

> most certainly didn’t reach its planned max q

One usually throttles down around max Q, so it's unclear from outside.

> rest with nozzles dented by rocks at ground escape velocity

Now we're speculating beyond the data. (Actually, we have counterfactual data: it reached max Q. That doesn't happen if you have mis-shaped nozzles causing flow separation.)

It reached some max Q. I’m not convinced it reached the absolute Q value they hoped for.

Earlier you seemed to imply that you could achieve max Q with six engines out by not throttling down as much. Why does the same not apply to overcoming possibly dented engine nozzles?

I think it is a bit premature to assert that the launch pad caused the engine failures.