Did you even read what I said? There I am in the Apollo capsule, with the lights on, trying to look through a porthole that is reflecting the light. Am I going to see stars? Or there I am on the lunar surface in the glare of sunlight off the regolith, incapable of getting dark adapted. Am I going to see stars? A camera won't, which is why they were not photographed that way.

Different astronauts had different circumstances and different dark adaptation thresholds. I can go outside my house at night on a clear sky and not see many stars, due to the light pollution from my downtown area. I know they are there, but my eyes are getting old.

Because the spacecraft has bright interior lights. Hop into your car at night, turn all the interior lights on, then tell me how well you can see the stars without rolling the windows down.

Same thing for why stars don’t appear in the background of photos from the moon. The brightness of the light reflected by lunar rocks/soil washes out the starlight, which is too dim to creat enough contrast. That and the cameras they brought weren’t telescopes, so they weren’t designed to picture stars. Again, try taking photos of the stars with an old hand held camera and see how well they show up.