> It is nice that there are other players around this space (Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, etc...), but all of them are currently aiming at much smaller payloads (than Falcon 9)

Of SpaceX's future competitors, almost all of them are aiming at larger payloads than Falcon 9.

* Vulcan: larger or smaller depending on how many SRBs

* New Glenn: larger

* Terran R: larger

* Neutron: smaller