Scientific Space Strategy?

The latest scientific missions to the Moon made me think. What is the strategy of scientific research in Space? The goals are very ambitious, but the road to achieve them are not that great.

At the moment most of the research is conducted by individual satellites and explorer landers or rovers. The investment on infrastructure has the least priority. Billions of dollars and thousands of hours of human effort are spend for years to conduct several days of research. Obtaining those information a couple years earlier and waiting again for several years to obtain more is an inefficient way of making research in my point of view. In internet I haven't seen any discussion on the efficiency of the scientific space strategy.

I propose an alternative approach for space exploration. Establishing the infrastructure should be the top priority. The scientific experiments can wait a couple of years. After a proper infrastructure is established, the experiments would be conducted more frequently and effectively. The lunar polar communication relay system and satellite sun reflectors to power robots at lunar nights could have been developed by now. Then a climbing robotic lunar explorer could have been send on the south pole to verify the existence of ice.

Space agencies find it more logical and feasible to send humans for space exploration such as Artemis project, then developing a space exploration robot that would outperform humans in every aspect. Agencies keep developing wheeled rovers for surface exploration. The situation is like the pre-iPhone era. Telecom companies kept adding buttons on mobile phones until iPhone. Now the phones have no buttons. I am waiting for that Space Apple to come up with a proper space robot. The sad part of the story is, we don't even have such robots to be used on Earth explorations. With the money and effort spend on the development of toppled lunar landers, a proper extraterrestrial landing technology could have been developed to increase the success rate of future missions.

Is the strategy, every commercial firm should invent the wheel over and over again.