What I said I put in parenthesis which alerts the reader that it is not part of my main argument. And I certainly NEVER said we should throw vehicles away. Or that I wasn't impressed by the rockets landing. I said in another comment, it was one of the most thrilling things I've seen in my lifetime.

My article is about trying to double payload capacities in one go. Why experience suggests it's harder than it looks, for whatever reason. I mentioned Falcon because one shouldn't confuse the success of reusability technology with heavy lift technology.