[ceejayoz]

SpaceX absolutely has a head-start now on reusability, launch costs, etc.

Boeing's century of experience was supposed to give them a head start on Commercial Crew; they squandered it, and recent history has the resulting gap getting bigger, not smaller.

[subsubzero]

exactly, I mean Boeing can't even make planes with doors that don't fall off in flight. I wouldn't look to Boeing for any engineering excellence in 2024.

[ethbr1]

They can obviously do that. They just can't do it fast enough or profitable enough to satisfy their managements' sales goals.

Profit, manufacturing speed, reliability: pick 2.