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S26 will be the final design, with no stupid flags.
The ammount of gimbal needed to compensate the aerodynamic lift of the flaps is waste. Just look at pic related, the AoA is stupidly high.
Also Starship wont be reusable. The tiles will keep falling off, and trajectory-wise it is just too difficult to guess where an unmanned cilinder of that size is going to land unless you burn a ton of fuel to induce a predictable fall (which defies the point of aerobraking).

Screencap this.