This isn’t the point at all. The future plan is to refurbish what isn’t immediately reuseable on the rocket and put it back into service. The reasons they won’t with this particular one are 1) It’s special for being the first and 2)They’re probably going to tear it apart and analyze each piece to see if they need to…

Controlled parachutes? That’s just not going to work for something with a dry mass of 25 tons, and I’m not even going to go into the impracticalities related to maneuvering such a thing while under canopy.

Anyhow, there actually isn’t a huge amount of fuel needed for the boostback and landing burns. Far more efficient…