Because Falcon 9 is being retired, the rest of the world outside China is supposedly heading for a launch crisis? And Starship “isn’t a commercial rocket”? Spare us. SpaceX is retiring Falcon 9 on purpose, to stop hoarding every contract and leave something for everyone else. Starship doesn’t have a general-purpose payload version yet for one reason: they’re focused on catching the booster and flying at high cadence first. Once they hit weekly flights in the second half of 2027, building a standard payload version will be trivial. The flight rate will make development cycles short. Retiring Falcon 9 is a gift. Other companies finally get the government contracts Falcon 9 used to swallow, while SpaceX concentrates on what actually matters - Starship HLS, cargo, and crew.