The thinking might be that if we are going to return to the moon, then the more we have in the way of useful projects to do there, the better. The JWST is not

The thinking might be that if we are going to return to the moon, then the more we have in the way of useful projects to do there, the better. The JWST is not exactly going smoothly, and telescopes of that size will not be powerful enough to study the era of the first stars.