[PIF]

The Booster can have up to 7 engines fail and still make orbit with payload.

If one of the Saturn V engines failed the mission would have failed. So less is not necessarily better.

[Justa]

Slanderous to claim I hate Musk. I recognize the attributes which have helped him succeed. Realism is fundamental to integrity in both word and deed.

As for "So less is not necessarily better."

Less engines has been the only design which has made it to the moon. The 30 x NK-15s of the four N1s blew up before orbit.