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Nah, huge limitation that it only works on walls painted with moon dust. Even without that detail, the surface needs to be flat and judging by the main characters height, roughly 1m x 2m. Those details really limit its functionality outside the enrichment center.
Then explain the ending of Portal 2. What flat surface exists on the moon?
Scale is important. Yes, the moon is round, but local flatness could be within the tool's tolerance. Even a surface plate (used by machinists a reference for flatness) has local peaks and valleys if you zoom in on the surface.
Judging by the moon landing pictures, most surfaces on the moon are roughly flat especially in the dusty areas.
The games are also a bit inconsistent about what happens when the surface moves. Sometimes the portal fizzles out, and on rare occasions it doesn’t.
If we really want to get into the specifics technically everything is moving. Could maybe that as long as the object is stationary relative to nearby large mass but then that would start to strain the moon shot since that is a separate large moving mass being linked to another moving mass
idk about flat but it's 100% covered in moon dust.