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>You can see this in how ArianneSpace and ULA are trying to get to their next generation of vehicles (which won't be competitive in terms of re-usability)

Arianespace is a company run by bureaucrats. Incredibly frustrating environment. If you ever thought space was exciting, Arianespace will suck the life out of you. Even the areas where the top management know they need deep and impactful change, they'll bring in an outsider or two to bring "a new vision", then tell the outsider to keep working with all the old people who've built their mini-empire around methods that make no sense and keep them in a perpetual state of "irreplaceable ball and chain" on the company.