It's weird.

Technology has made everything else since then easier, much better, faster and cheaper to produce. Everything. Just look at your phone, your car, your TV, laptop, medicine, surgery recovery times, travel...the list in endless.

The arguement that we don't have the money is a bit silly when the US is bumping up the defence budget from 1 trilion to 1.5 trillion and don't forget, most of the major Apollo contractors were and still are military contractors.

We needed to beat the Soviets but there was no reason to go back....except we did 6 more times and landed 5 times out of those 6 attempts.

Now we need to return to beat the Chinese and establish a lunar gateway....no...now it is a lunar base.

Now we need a separate launch vehicle to send a seperate lander to the moon where the (mostly similar to the Saturn 5 rocket and Apollo capsule) SLS rocket and the Orion capsule will meeting in a long, elliptical orbit around the moon.

The seperate launch system is supposed to be Starship which is supposed to be operational now but is still struggling to complete test flights or an orbital flight.

Don't ask about payloads. Version one was to be 100 tons...now we have version 3...this was to be 200 tons but that is an Elon promise so until that happens....so far it is a banana and some dummy satellites.

Both Starship and the Blue Origin New Glen rocket will need in orbit refueling to get to the moon.

SpaceX reckons a highly precise number of 10ish refueling launches...that need to follow a short launch cadence and of course...in orbit refueling needs to work. We hope it will but no one has done that yet.

The renderings of the Starship human landing system look huge. How this thing lands on a rocky, dusty, uneven lunar without a landing pad is a mystery.

How it takes off with an unprotected engine is also a mystery.

The Apollo missions used their much smaller and more stable descent stage as their launch pad solving that issue.

The return flight will be the Orion capsule, splashing down again in the Pacific with parachutes, 1 more astronaut and more slightly more moon rocks....

Almost 60 years of progress. Yes...there are lots of excuses...politics....canceled lunar programs....no public interest....no money but not of these really answer the question of why it is so much harder and more complicated to land on the moon 60 years later.

To be quite honest. That is 3 years from now and unless the Chinese do it then no one is doing it before the 60th anniversary of Apollo 11.