I didn't get the same thing out of the comment you were responding to...but I otherwise agree with you entirely:
> Failure is fine. Failure is expected. Failure is the best way to learn an iterate.
and
> don't say "well we always got what we wanted out of it anyway, which was to learn" when your goal was "to build the ultimate fighter jet at this budget in this timeline"
> I didn't get the same thing out of the comment you were responding to
This is my fault, as I was mostly paraphrasing what he said in other comments. So that's just lazy commenting on my part, and probably I deserve downvotes for it.
> Failure is fine. Failure is expected. Failure is the best way to learn an iterate.
and
> don't say "well we always got what we wanted out of it anyway, which was to learn" when your goal was "to build the ultimate fighter jet at this budget in this timeline"