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You're correct that it doesn't satisfy me in so far as it'll never happen by the end of the decade. The biggest thing with that is you still need to take the mass of the spool with you, so why not just send parts to build a hab instead of the raw materials?
I think realistically long term the ISRU will have to use the regolith to create the outer shells of hand. Either that or a empty lava tube if they chose a site near one. Though that has its own issues.

As for oxygen and other resources. I haven't really looked into that as much as I wish I had but you'd probably enjoy this book. Covers a lot of these topics in depth.