u/KubrickIsMyCopilot: "safety" should not even be a word in the spaceflight vocabulary. Not for generations.
Why generations? The criteria is the number of flights and the accident situations undergone and resolved. That should be possible in under 25 years.
u/KubrickIsMyCopilot: Safety improves in direct proportion to the level of risk you're willing to accept up front, multiplied by the scale at which you're willing to pursue it in early days.
agreeing. 17th century sailing ships, 9th century steam ships, and 1950 airliners all took their toll.
Moreover, we now have the huge advantage of being able to fly payloads to space unmanned, so correcting many accident causes without loss of life. This is a big argument in favor of Starlink since it provides the payloads to make the transition from Falcon 9 to Starship, quickly and without additional human risk.
Edit Having read your link, it seems you make a related point, but don't include the risk mitigation thanks to crewless flights.