The stars are in alienment.

Narr!  More the excuse to copy/paste routines or something.  It's a recurring nightmare.

Well after the first couple of planets there is very little to explore FOR.  You have seen it all, so exploring is more the unloved job of work then the thrill.  Auto-make-planet-viable would be handy here.

I'm not sure why this needed its own thread. I've read this opinion before, and there are plenty of threads in which it could've been appropriately posted. This feels like an effort to create a new echo chamber. Even the phrasing of the OP feels so, asking essentially, "Who Agrees?" I'm not trying to be offensive or provocative; I'm just being honest.

I get a buzz from the idea of making a planet habitable, defeating threats, and establishing settlements. Much the same way I get a buzz when I play city building or empire building strategy games, and the way I enjoy building 'fortresses' in RPGs that have them (you know, the best ones).

It's not something every game asks you to do, and it's not something every gamer wants to do, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who enjoys this. And they were up front in the game's promotion about what being a pathfinder was. If you signed up for something when all you wanted to do was shoot enemies, well, that's a shame, but I'm glad there was so much of these things in the game, and I hope there's more in DLCs.

I don't think the repetition is the problem. You literally do the same check list things in Zelda Breath of the Wild for each of the 4 main dungeons with the side quests either being fetch quests and quests to find shrines. None of the repetition makes the game bad either. It's the execution of how every works together that's the difference with no real reward or conclusion for doing the extra stuff on each world.
The issue is there's a main story and then there's optional stuff. If the optional stuff was more fleshed out to add value and unique atmosphere to the specific world with better rewards than just planet viability, it would have worked better.

I almost wish the game allowed players to go to any of the planets after you leave the Nexus. Each world has a more unique story with a few missions being specific to the main campaign. Each playthrough's story can formulate differently depending on the order you decide on.

For example, I may choose to go to Kadara first where another player may decide to go to Elaadin first.

Except here we have like nothing to do. Land, do vault, place outpost, done. Compared to a city builder it is like "build a road from east to west and place a powerplant somewhere, the end". And we get this 4 times in a row, to make things worse, every 2 minutes we are being shot at by meaningless random mobs, sometimes we can just drive by, sometimes we have to get out of the Nomad and shoot back.
Or look at Kadara, by the time I finished the last mission so I could build the outpost, Kadara was at 100% and I didn't even make any of this "disattached" sidemissions.
Building and reinforcing the fortress in NWN2 was better. BW could had added more, like outposts attacked "regularly" by Kett or whatever, hiring soldiers, equiping them, deciding for EACH outpost tobe research/military, and thate just the 3 that came to mind in the few seconds I wrote this sentence.

I too am a gofer when it comes to creating something from nothing, but not so much when it becomes same-o-same-o.  I also feel that the title 'pathfinder' is somewhat over exaggerated as mostly you are following in the footsteps of someone that has already found said path.

Yes, different creatures on different planets would have added some spice, tough not enough imo to save them really. But it would be better than the copypasted mess we ended up getting, where theyre all over the place, the same creatures. How much sense does that even make, did the Angara transport them? Handwaved again.

What would have really saved them was some intresting and unique quests to each planet. Say on Elaaden we woiuld have to track down something but it turns out its a trap set by someone which leads us to falling into a pit of a completely new, never before seen  hungry sand beasts or something, now we have to fight our way out of there and confront our betrayer. Maybe add some twists and turns in the way.

Or we get captured by a group of nefarious krogan outlaws and we arrange a deal with an ambitious old krogan to get out by fighting gladiatorial battles or something, then dealing with a leader.

Or another quest on another planet which leads to a contact with previously unknown, but not spacefaring alien civilization, living underground for example, how would we as a pathfinder proceed? Another thing that would make them unique is that they are really alien, basically sapient hiveminded worm creatures or something.

But instead we get go here, now get to another planet, use the scanner, talk to some boring npc, now go here. oh and fix the lights, or search the room, or fix/align the damn antenna on the way. Busywork of running around. Or heres a base, go inside, fight waves of enemies, push a few buttons, go here to hack this, kill the boss, collect the loot, the end. Exciting? Not since ME1. Its amazing that after 4 games they havent gotten most of the sidequest right. We want more innovation, not just copypasted locations and missions. Different locations, different enemies, different feeling things, sense or exploration and discovery. Instead here i am in another galaxy, driving around Kadara, shooting random "mercs" and reading random datapads, and im thinking to myself "didnt i already do this enough in ME1 and ME2?".

I mean there are some quests that leave you feeling some excitement about, for instance to me it was pretty intresting while exploring a cave in Kadara that i stumbled on the hidden collective base, and then had to find some traitor amongst them(wish there was more to this place tough than that and the button joke). I liked that sense of discovery, the whole game should have been like that. Instead 70 % of the time its just filled with this boring, mundane and tedious busywork of "finding plants, engines or missing satellites", activating remnant monoliths, and "Finding some guy on planet x, then planet y, then planet z". And fighting the same enemies on the way there. Theres just not enough moments like that for me in the game.

And we really don't have a huge incentive to pursue them. There arent any special weapons, armor, abilities or any rewards for getting the outposts established.

I think one way they could have made the outpost establishements unique and worthwhile is a special ability tied to each outpost. You know from start the types of outposts can you can establish but you don't know what ability/tool they give you. Or just have it where you can't decide the outpost but each world gives you unique ability. I'm getting this idea from Zelda BOtW's divine beast abilities or just tools from the Zelda series in general.

Example would be: I establish an outpost on Voeld, outpost learns how to harness and channel electromagnetic energy from Anagara.

I can now use a tool that creates a large energy barrier around the squad increasing defense and attack like the Moshae's barrier.

Another outpost could develop a gun for the Nomad.

Etc