Has anyone did adopt only thru foster care?

my 3 foster only situations went adoption, my 2 placements that were supposed to go straight adoption, were RU'd. lol. most of the families i know irl who have adopted from foster care went the foster route and ended up adopting. i know several families who tried to do straight adopt, and it didn't work out for them, all those kids were ru'd. i only know one family irl who did straight adopt, and even then it was kind of a fluke as they knew the child from the hospital they worked in, and became licensed to adopt HER specifically.