Seasons & Landscapes

I recently read an interesting post about writers of SciFi on Quora.com. It was a criticism of a trap writers often fall into when describing other planets and worlds. While current technologies have allowed us to "prove" the existence of other planets orbiting other stars, there is a very limited criterion of size, distance from the star, atmosphere and more before other worlds can be inhabited by humankind. The Universe is a really big place. There is a possibility such worlds exist. But many Science Fiction authors describe the environments of those worlds in a singular way: A desert planet, a frozen planet, a tropical planet, and so on. The Earth includes all of those things! Why shouldn't other worlds that might be inhabitable also have a variety of climes? In my own works, I describe volcanic planets but have areas of rain and storms, desert and canyon environments with more temperate coastal plant regions and freshwater rivers, and one all-frozen world with two primary seasons, cold and colder. So I've partially fallen into the same trap, but in future works plan not to. Thanks for that Quora writer and their biggest "pet peeve" about worlds in SciFi writing!