Okay good.
If there isn’t a reason to have people on it, I’m not sure I’d push it. I’m certainly not the end all be all of knowledge on this. My grandmother had an old saying. “An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure.”
Seems like the first one could go off without men on it. Let it prove it’s worth and then put some folks on the second.
Not trying to downplay your knowledge on the vehicle. My thoughts may not be worthy.
That's the calculus in a nutshell. Sometimes "pushing it" is good, other times, not. If the team sees flight one as a "freebie," it takes some pressure off.
No flight is going to be perfectly safe.