How many books were written because he just dared to look and imagine!
In comparison a lot of scientists are just idiots and bores.
Scientists have been mostly wrong for most of their careers, only few of them have ever contributed anything useful. Imagine all the idiotic and boring things the army of scientists does, totally not productive and money wasting. Why would they think they're the shit?
And why are scientists the only ones allowed telescopes time. After all the money for the telescopes have been contributed by all kinds of taxpayers, so all kinds of people should have access to the telescopes. I think artists should also be allowed Webb time.
Who is the judge of what is actually useful? The beautiful is more useful than the useful, Hugo said that.