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I speculated that it might have been NASA's request because SpaceX said they wanted this next landing attempt to be on land back at the launch site.
They wanted this before the last landing failed again, despite lots of good hope. But as it did not land successfully and crashed explosively enough to cause widespread damage, its absolutely reasonable to not push luck too far.