They did though, they massively cut costs of launching a rocket, which is again the real barrier for space exploration, especially commercially viable space exploration. It’s not clear that NASA could have done that seeing how their costs remained roughly the same for decades, but don’t take it from me, take it from NASA themselves:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001093/downloads/20200001093.pdf

What’s your counter argument for saying they didn’t run circles around NASA?