Comment by panick21_

Building a architecture to sustainably send human places will also enable a lot of other things. Having a 100 ton lander allows you to send far more then tiny probes. And we know well that actual humans exploring and looking for samples is better in many ways.

Getting humans to have long term sustainability and mobility on the moon and having tools and robotic support is long term.

The same architecture can then be reused for Mars.

On earth, most caves are explored with humans. Most science is not done by robotics only.