Yes, the low cost moon rovers will be VERY cool, if they ever happen and if any of them succeed. But when you say "I think it is a good thing that technology has made it possible not to need to have an STS", well, if we suddenly have a need to put 50,000 lbs into LEO and have it human tended, we are screwed! We had that capability and we threw it away. The ISS is perhasp one Soyuz screw up away from a 100 billion dollar failure. It was complete idiocy to throw away STS without a successor!!!