Nice photo of the launch.
https://twitter.com/@twitter/status/1649062151959478273
By @Erikkuna for Supercluster
Launch breakdown by Scott Manley.
And this photo of the launch pad showed up on twitter, apparently from the Beechtalk forum.
Fifteen million pounds of thrust is going to do some serious damage, even with that bit of a stand-off they build into the pad. I agree, the damage was foreseeable. But I suspect it also speaks to the mindset of SpaceX that even if good practice is to do X, they'll skip over that to see if they can get away with it.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.