Part of the fun of the monkeys/Shakespeare mot is that it's completely inapplicable to the real world, and thus absurd. The point of the "landed a rocket on a barge in the ocean" response is that whatever methodology SpaceX uses is not in that category -- it's an existence proof that what they are doing works in the real world, and is thus not absurd.

If they have a process proven to work, in a world where they are already doing things no one else has been able to do, changes to that process should be introduced very slowly.