I don't know enough about the name to have any opinion. AFAIK, they named it after some famous astronomer. Why are they disputing it? Was there a more famous astronomer they should have named it after? That would be a bad reason. Or did James Webb do something that was un-woke and get canceled? As for the telescope, it's cool. Just progress as usual - the new Hubble. I remember there was a setback, a defect in the main mirror when it came out, but they fixed it, or at least partially fixed it. The mirror was warped, and they installed a smaller mirror that it reflects off of that was warped in just the right way to counter the warpedness of the main mirror. But I don't hold that against them...it's almost expected for something to go wrong. Pulling off a project like the James Webb telescope is a miracle of human engineering.