To facilitate the discussion let me throw out some facts.
We are stuck in this solar system for the foreseeable future.
The only habitual place within the solar system is Earth.
There is nothing we currently know of in the solar system that isn’t also available on Earth.
It is also a fact that there is serious debate between scientist about whether robot explorers might actually be superior to humans in exploring our neighborhood.
habitual = habitable.
habitual = habitable.
The problem with robot explorers is they don’t encourage speed. All our unmanned craft are “fire and forget for a couple of years (decades even)”. While they get good information it’s very slow. When we send people out we go faster, because we don’t want to stick people on a 7 year one way trip. In the long run we have to get a sustainable population of people out of the solar system, sending people around our neighborhood is a better step on that path than sending robots.