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>One thing that will be memory holed because of the ultimate successful launch is just the MASSIVE overpromising on schedule and budget.

All the bureaucrats and contractors who are part of the revolving door will remember it and not in a way that is good for us.

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You shouldn't be downvoted. The revolving door thing is a real problem with private industry and underpaid government bureaucrats.

Managers and stakeholders will point out how JWST means that cost and schedule overruns don't matter and will soon be forgotten, no matter how large... As long as the project launches and operates. IMHO, this is bad. We'd be much better off cancelling highly underperforming projects early and reorienting resources towards competently run projects. Instead, we more often tend to throw good money after bad. A problem that has echoes in the US's infrastructure cost woes.