I think this part of the problem though. We don't believe we can really do anything at this point so we have turned everything into a stochastic process with multiple draws needed and it gives everyone an out when things don't work.

"Oops, JWST blew up, guess we just got unlucky with that single draw from the urn. Shouldn't have put all our eggs in one basket. "

Just do it. No more urn thinking. Just launch , get in orbit and blow our minds with the data that is sent back. I don't want to hear about anything less than that.