If you don't see the contradiction in JPL having an active research project to put a radio telescope on the moon and your original statement then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
From the article: "FarView would comprise a hundred thousand metal antennas made on-site by autonomous robots. It would cover a Baltimore-size swath of the moon." That's way beyond anything possible today. What JPL proposes is just packing up a big thing tightly and unpacking it at the destination. Space projects have been doing that for decades.
When someone assembles a solar farm in the desert with no humans on site, we can talk about doing something like that on Luna.
When someone assembles a solar farm in the desert with no humans on site, we can talk about doing something like that on Luna.