Why is that a bad decision? Would watching it help in any way?
There are about 50 deployment actions that have to occur. If everything works perfectly, great. But if something hangs up or gets tangled, the people running the mission are blind when trying to debug the problem
I mean, SpaceX would have put 4 cameras on it. Also, pics, or it didn't happen.
But they all would have broken due to "communication issues"
To learn from what went wrong. Even if it cannot be corrected for the telescope, we can hopefully see enough about what went wrong to be able to prevent the same thing from happening on future complex satellites.