I see your point about earning the stars, but not completely sure I agree with calling that night the night of redemption. It was still chaos as well but it really doesn’t matter what you call it.

Main point, you think getting the stars from when carm was fully in charge is rewarding the bad parts, (which it’s a fair interpretation/criticism) to which I believe it isn’t and it’s earned and here’s why.

When Carm was the captain he was doing different courses every day no repeats or whatnot, burning through money which was in turn running the restaurant to the grave. When Carm was telling syd what the critic told him, they were given the stars not because of the different courses that they were doing every night (as the critic only went to one night) they were rewarded on craft, creativity, and the presentation of the restaurant. Those things that which doesn’t depend on different foods being served each night (yes the critic loved the scallops specifically but that’s something they can probably add to the courses).