I would consider these launches test launches. Production is when they include commercial payloads and humans.

In production? I don't disagree that tests 'in production' are sometimes necessary (canary tests), but most of the quirks are often fixed by then.

Honestly I thought they would be live testing fuel exchange in orbit by now. Seems pretty far from it sadly.

launching a rocket is far more analogulous to shipping a release, than it is running code.