You must've missed the part where the flight broadcast team mentioned heat tiles and other things were removed from Starship and they were literally beating the snot out of the thing on re-entry with the flaps to stress test the heck out of it.
It wasn't "damage" they did it deliberately and it was a success!
Yeah, I fast forwarded through it. Good they stressed the hell out of it. Both booster and rocket performed marvelously. They could probably do jump lands and get you from Dubai to hawaii in a couple of hours.