What abput a world house instead ? https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/460e7e5f4977b https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/460e7e5f4977b You basically start by

What abput a world house instead ? https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/460e7e5f4977b https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/460e7e5f4977b You basically start by building a roof over part of the surface, then you pump it full of breathable atmosphere and inhabit it. Then another part and so on until you have covered the whole surface or got bored by it. A huge benefit if that you can get (localized) results almost immediately instead of pumping massive resource into regular terraformation for possibly hundreds of years to only have useful results at the very end. Also you can do this on worlds that would never hold an atmospere (Moon, asteroids) or would loose it over time (Mars).