>full of cool minerals and pretty looking gems
>lush vegetation
>huge biodiversity; so many different animals to admire and befriend
>vast supply of food to sustain huge populations
>you can build stuff and make cool things on it
>if you want you can make a fire to stay warm and melt ore into metal to make cool things with and thus any kind of meaningful technology
>huge diversity of biomes; forests, plains, deserts, jungles, marshes, mountains, tundras, shrublands, prairies, etc. while down in the ocean you have "water", "deep water", and "water with lots of coral in it" as your only real biomes
i don't see the problem with land
