The amount of physical adjustments and maintenance needed to operate mirrors in the 15m+ diameter range, for visible and near IR/UV, are very hard in outer space. For now it seems that earth-bound optical telescopes are still needed, even with all the orbital debree and atmospheric interference.
How many of us get access to that?
It simply is not efficient to do this with the atmosphere in the middle.
The time for that was centuries ago.
Try naked eye, changes are you'll find the north star if at all. Simple light pollution already makes this really hard.