No worries, I don't think there is such a thing as "too skeptical". Someone else mentioned Musk advocating for the "nuke the shit out of Mars" plan. You and I agree that is probably too simplistic and will have undesirable, unanticipated effects.

I don't claim to have all the answers. I mostly just came here because you replied to a few people saying the atmosphere would bleed away soon after being generated. That's not the case. Whether it's possible to regenerate one at all with current tech though, that's still a big question mark.

I've heard of the idea of siphoning atmosphere from Venus, but if we had the level of tech necessary to do that, we wouldn't need planets to live on.