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But why?

The Moon will probably be colonized by robots. Robots can be built to operate in vacuum. Off earth, humans are stuck indoors except for occasional excursions in space suits.

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If we ever have any sort of base on the moon, even an automated one, inevitably humans will want to move there too. Might as well think about how that might work with time to plan ahead.

Nobody lives in Antarctica for its own sake, and that's a lot closer to home. You can breathe the air there. If we could replace McMurdo base with robots, nobody would weep.

Wouldn't expect that to change until/unless we find some natural resources worth exploiting down there.

Plenty of people go to Antarctica for its own sake.

You can buy a cruise ship ticket to Antarctica for $30,000.

To fix the robots. Moon dust is evil -- unweathered, sharp, and electrostatically suspended in clouds due to solar wind charging it up. Until robots get good at repair work, some poor humans are probably going to get stuck with this job.

To do repacking/refueling logistics for more ambitious manned missions.

To unpack and deploy infrastructure.

To shoot at people who try to jack the infrastructure :)

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