Not in my backyard. I paid a lot of money to live on this gated community planet, and I'm not letting those dirty Earthlings anywhere near here.

Better to just suck out the heavy elements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting

or we'll be so far away from earth we won't care.

or we'll have failed to make it through the great filter and all be long extinct.

We have the technology, just not the logistics.

Orbit around... what, exactly?

Or modify the sun.