So let me get this straight: We load up the first stage with an extra 10,000 lbs of propellant to save a $20,000,000 booster while saying “no” to a paying customer, who wanted to give you $100,000,000 to launch his satellite. Trading launch mass from paying customers to “saving” the first booster makes no sense.
Right now the cost to send a satellite into space aboard a Falcon 9 is about $61.2 million.
“while saying ‘no’ to a paying customer,”
Who did SpaceX say, ‘no,’ to? And the context to that decision?