they could have sent a temporary camera along with the craft to take a picture of it at the final position and send back to earth.
This is the unfortunate reality of space: The images we see from the Hubble, et al, are exposed for minutes if not hours, and processed to bring out colors invisible to the human eye. An astronaut flying to see the Webb, or one of many other "well known" astronomical landmarks would see either nothing or a faint smudge without a telescope or other enhancements.
The aforementioned NASA blog post goes into the many other reasons this wasn't practical.