IOW, they hedged their bets to pass the test and not leave a smoking hole in the ground. All well and good if you want to keep to your timeline to flight and keep federal funds flowing, but if I were an astronaut selected to sit atop that beast, I’d want to have them stress-test that thing nine ways to Sunday before I strapped in.
True!
Contrast that approach with SpaceX’s blooper reel: https://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ