This is a prototype. It's purpose was to make the flight to see how it performed. It was never going to fly again no matter how it landed. They got what they wanted out of it.
Spacex crashed a lot of Falcon boosters before perfecting the landing of those. Now it's routine.
I understand that, but this type of landing is hundreds of times less safe than a parachute landing or winged landing, because the vertical speeds are so much higher.
When a government safety bureaucrat see’s something like this, they say to themselves “not on my watch”.
Muskateer Kids that think people will be rocketing off to Tokyo by 2027, have not met Joe Biden’s FAA, yet.