Planned failure. Unlike NASA, SpaceX does not have to contend with public opinion about every little aspect of their process. NASA had such spectacular failures very early in their testing (pre-Mercury/Redstone/Atlas) but they weren’t televised or at least not to the extent things are today.
The difference is SpaceX can do a test every month or so. NASA is currently on track to complete it’s second test in 15 years sometime in the next 24 months and the 3rd test will be a year or two after that. I expect by that time SpaceX will have sent several Starship flights around the moon and possibly ever landed on their own (can the US Government prevent them from doing that?). They might even have an unmanned Starship on the way to Mars by then to assess the rockets viability for manned missions. Once they get it flying reliably, I don’t see any reason not to stress it as much as possible.
“Unlike NASA, SpaceX does not have to contend with public opinion about every little aspect of their process. NASA had such spectacular failures very early in their testing (pre-Mercury/Redstone/Atlas) but they weren’t televised or at least not to the extent things are today.”
Also, the legacy media did not hate NASA with all it’s heart. They hate Musk.