Why terraform at all?

We Earthlings like to live in gravity wells but also have a taste for the exotic and are a bit lazy. Why not make colonies that take advantage of local conditions?

Cloud cities over Venus, much less fun ones on Titan, an Atlantis under the ice on Europa, Domed potato farms on Mars etc.

It seems to me that making a series of earths would have dubious benefits and huge costs. Why change the spin of a planet when you can just genetically modify your crops etc.

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