I'm surprised your comment is getting so many upvotes (in that I assume those upvoting you see this as a failure by SpaceX?

But, long time members and followers here know that it was NASA who really didn't like the idea of propulsive landing, and strongly discouraged SpaceX in that regard.

In other words: it's not what the customer wanted.

SpaceX nevertheless continued to pursue it for a while longer because they were going to use it to do propulsive landings of the modified Dragon capsule on Mars, in order to test CO2 to methane manufacture, and also for a sample return mission of Martian regolith/rocks--a mission which was originally to be launched on a Falcon Heavy and take place right about now, approximately, give or take.

But that Mars mission on the part of SpaceX was nixed in favor of Starship development.

(Had NASA given SpaceX some extra money for that mission, then NASA could have had a Mars sample-return mission in flight right now, for a fairly cheap price!)