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Ah, so you are pissed cause that was your car parked at the launch site. Sorry about the back window. <\sarc> (there are pic's of a car parked extremely close to the pad which got pretty damaged during the launch. Apparently they used it as a mobile camera platform for ground level video.)

FAA v NASA, I did not go back and catch it was the FAA that is ordering the corrections. My bad, and no reason for you to talk down to me. As another poster said however, where the hell were they when Challenger blew up ... so not really a non-sequitur. The Challenger disaster was actually a case study we went thru in my Master's program and my guess is the FAA is involved now because NASA could not govern themselves and the result was Challenger.

I am down in Florida near the Space Coast and watch launches whenever they are at a convenient time. (lately most seem to be overnight). Anyway ... since you saw it live I am assuming that you were not privy to watch the live broadcast. They went in depth on setting expectations prior to launch, and my core point was that the launch exceeded expectations, and comparing it to 737-Max is the non-sequiter.

The launch pad, as you know was purpose built for this rocket, and yes, they did not have a fire trench, did not have a water supression system, etc etc ... There is a reason they did not launch this from 39A in Florida. It was the most powerful rocket ever launched, and yes, they should have done more to protect the pad.

One interesting thing I did just find out, is that the FAA did not actually do their own investigation into this launch ... SpaceX did the investigation and the FAA just reviewed it, so none of the 63 corrective actions are things that SpaceX disagrees with, they suggested them. https://www.faa.gov/media/70901

That said, this article is really nothing more than clickbait because it is nothing that was unexpected by SpaceX or the FAA. SpaceX designed and built everything, got a license from the FAA for the launch, launch happened, blew up, SpaceX figured out what went wrong, submitted a report to FAA in compliance with their launch license, FAA approved their plan for corrective actions. No deep state conspiracy here.