You are not required to build planets or allocate spending in a remotely optimal fashion in order to win the game. Therefore, it is likely that allowing governors to build your planets for you will work and so if you do not find it enjoyable to manage your planets properly, don't bother.

I will not tell you that governors are only slightly suboptimal as far as maximizing the output of any given planet goes, however, as so far as I'm concerned they are highly incompetent. However, since all the player needs to do to win is slightly outperform the computer (overall, not in each field; you can have garbage-tier planets and still win the game if you have good ship designs and enough money to field just enough of them to win wars, for example), optimizing planets to the best of your ability is not necessary, and using governors will put your empire on roughly the same footing as the computer's empires (after all, the computer presumably uses the same governors that the player can use to build out its planets).

Assuming the player govenor uses the same govenor as the AI?

I would have guessed that the developers would have rigirously tested how the AI players run their worlds,, and put allot of fine tuning into it. I do not see them having such a high motivation to fine tune player govenors?

Be good if you have a setting for governors where you can tell them to focus on money?

A farm in the center of five factories?! hahahaha

Now go and find a screenshot of an AI planet doing something like that?.... i bet not!

Ok lets say you don't like a little bit of micromanagement. When you notice that your planets have to many factories switch governors to something else, or if you want shut them off. I don't use them. For reason of not too much micromanagement, but if I ever get tired of playing it will be a nice option to have. I am on the side of making governors good. If you added Duranthium refinery instead you would only needed two more factories with a little more manufacturing. This is obviously one of their manufacturing worlds that is why their is so many factories, Though a manufacturing governor would probably do the same.

This is admittedly the worst I've seen, but it was the first planet I conquered post 1.4, not a good first impression. I routinely see very boneheaded setups since then. I5-2500k is well above minimum specs.

Nope, not buying the hardware excuse. This is a coding issue, plain and simple. In any case, it exemplifies why I won't let the AI govern my planets, no way, no how.

The reason comes from Galciv2 actually, because there was a big issue that the AI will perform much better with more powerful computers. They even developed some special option if you want to allow the AI to use something i forget to use left over computer power in some way.

The planets i have taken in my game so far are honestly not that bad,,, and they were minor race worlds which have allot of competing objectives to try and fit in one planet!

Most of the adjusting i had to do was to move the planet toward specialization.

Here are some examples of planets I've taken from the AI, I don't use governors since I like planning my own colonies.

As an influence world this isn't bad at all, maybe one too many factories.

Half influence, half research. Only fault I can see is no factories and it didn't take advantage of the food tile.

Income world, not bad at all.