Starship is really the only way they’ll get to the numbers of operational Starlink satellites they want.
42,000 isn’t it?
Supposedly SpaceX/Starlink would go bankrupt unless the Starship got operational by December — in 2023, or 2024, maybe even 2022. Starlink version 2 is a bigger but much more capable sat; the one currently going up 23 to 27 at a time aboard the F9 is a more advanced and smaller version of version 2, which is great, because it’s clear that Starship is the most difficult thing SpaceX has attempted, by far.