So you seem to be defining "success" in terms of completing pre-planned flight events, which is fine. However, this is not the only metric by which one can define and assess success. Surely you must agree it depends on the objective.

We might as well be arguing over if the launch was "good" or "bad", -it is subjective.

One objective question you can ask is "Did the test complete the pre-specified criteria which SpaceX said they would consider a success?", which it did.

We could then debate if they have a dumb criteria for Success, and what we think is a better one.