That was the worst part. You have this super-optimized build that you somehow managed to make work with an ungodly amount of personal time, effort, blood and tears. It will only work so long as the hardware survives and on this machine only, nowhere else. Any update can knock your build down, making you work on debugging anywhere from a few minutes to full-on weeks.
So you have a system that works at best as well as any other system which you could get flying within an hour with only a few clicks in the installer.
That’s it. That’s what you’ve worked for and need to continue working for.
Same for SLS, except way more expensive and way more far behind schedule.
Did some googling (go verify these numbers yourself if you want to):
Both companies are far behind schedule and budget. I think SLS will put a lander on the moon first and SLS will land the bulk of the whole program on the moon afterwards. Sort of like comparing an F1 car with a Full-sized Truck. After that Starship 3 launch, which was mostly successful, I am quite sure they’ll make it work at some point in the future.