Could a super-Earth called Hestia be better than planet Earth?

You won’t find Hestia, a super-Earth planet, on any of the charts, for this is a body imagined by Kurzgesagt. But Hestia, on paper at least, is a super-Earth in more ways than one. No polar regions are present, ditto continents, though there are a multitude of medium size island land masses. The planet also sports shallow oceans, and an atmosphere far denser than Earth. Combined, these conditions make Hestia an ideal spawning ground for all manner of complex lifeforms, including, possibly, intelligent life. This would-be super-Earth also orbits in the habitable zone of an orange-dwarf star. The Sun meanwhile is a yellow-dwarf. Proxima Centauri, the next nearest star to Earth, is a red-dwarf. Orange-dwarfs represent — at face value at least — a happy balance between the two. They are usually highly stable, and boast long lifespans, up to seventy-billon years, compared to about ten billion for stars such as the Sun. A planet particularly conducive to life, hosted by a stable, long-lived…