What a joke. Because Musk needs to hit his stupid made-up hype numbers, everyone else needs to step it up. The letter explains why anyone would leave and not look back.

I thought SpaceX currently didn't have clearance to launch their Starship from Boca Chica due to noise/environmental concerns, and that location seems to have a lot of issues as a potential long term launch site.

The Falcon 9 is a very capable launch platform with a much reduced environmental impact - albeit with a lower payload capacity.

'Only' starship can launch the new 2nd gen sats is a bit misleading...  it implies these 2nd gen sats are huge... and need a heavy lift vehicle.  Thats not the case... its a numbers game...  starship can launch many more sats in a single launch than falcon 9... making the launch faster and more economical.   There are already some 2nd gen sats with laser communications in orbit and Starship hasn't been to orbit yet so we know falcon 9 put them there.     There are likely business cases for the economics of starship making it profitable and PR branding of starship being more important to the company than besides 'Mars' and 'Moon' missions.