[rzimmerman]

Absolutely. A lot of back-patting and inside jokes about 40 years of building expensive space systems that often failed. Self-aggrandizing crap about how “space is hard”. Space was hard in the 60s when you had to invent microprocessors to get off the ground. It’s well understood and should be common and cheap now (at least for Earth orbiting systems). This old boys club nonsense might feel fun but space is changing, access is becoming easy, and anyone that tries to spend 10 years and a billion dollars on a project won’t last long.