I know that nobody is looking for a serious answer and just wants to bitch, but the real issue is that we don't just want to go to the moon in a tin can for a couple of days, but instead set up some proper infrastructure as a stepping stone to elsewhere in the solar system. This means that we can't just dust off the Apollo tech and run it back again.
Complicating matters are our desire to do this on a shoestring budget, no broad public support, the presidential flip-flop every four years, a chronic inability to put the best possible leadership in place (not putting forth the nomination of Jared Issacman was a colossal failure), and awkward public-private partnerships with companies that either haven't yet demonstrated much of anything (Blue Origin) or who are struggling mightily with the fact that the move-fast-break-stuff iterative approach might have finite limitations (you know who).
Complicating matters are our desire to do this on a shoestring budget, no broad public support, the presidential flip-flop every four years, a chronic inability to put the best possible leadership in place (not putting forth the nomination of Jared Issacman was a colossal failure), and awkward public-private partnerships with companies that either haven't yet demonstrated much of anything (Blue Origin) or who are struggling mightily with the fact that the move-fast-break-stuff iterative approach might have finite limitations (you know who).