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by bell-cot 741 days ago
Per Wikipedia, SpaceX's 3 "Get out of Mishap Investigation, Free" cards from the FAA for this test flight were -

Starship burns up during reentry

Flaps lack sufficient control authority

Raptor engines fail to relight

- suggesting that both the flaps and heat shielding were regarded as highly experimental, and failure(s) in them very likely to occur.