They said go to other colonies. How are those not the only options?
When they're evacuating others, they're evacuating so that they can more definitely live another day.
When they're directly fighting, they're fighting for the chance to definately live as victors of the war.
Obviously your personal stance is going to be more one way or the other. The 'evacuators' might see directly fighting as relatively fruitless until the Crucible is completed.
And the 'fighters' might see any evacuations as relatively useless because the places they're evacuating too, will likely be overrun in time anyway.
That's just how this story works imo.
(Though I'm not saying that fighting in itself is bad. I'm talking about direct fighting whenever possible, which is something different. It's up to the individual player to decide just how much should be or should have been done. Some evacuating actions may be seen as pointless, like that scene where the soldier's daughter gets sent to..Thessia. Some direct fighting actions may be seen as fruitless, like.. everything that's being done to hold as much of Thessia as possible, when you know they're gonna lose.)
It's about staying alive as long as possible. Refugees may have to evacuate several times, just to stay ahead of the reapers. Meanwhile the armies are all doing their best to slow the reapers down. I don't think anybody gets too comfortable in a new place.
So there's no sense evacuating people anyplace because the Reapers are going to conquer the whole galaxy anyway? I guess that's true. But meanwhile, isn't it better to have people on a planet that will be conquered in a few months rather than on a planet that will be conquered this week?
When did I argue otherwise? I said fighting, evacuating, to either the Citadel or other colonies, or being turned into goo were the only options of a fate. There's really nothing else you could do.
Some are going to the Citadel.
Beyond that the others are probably being evacuated to Alliance worlds that haven't been occupied yet, or to planets belonging to allies to haven't been attacked yet. I would imagine by the end of the war that Sur'Kesh must have had plenty of human, Turian, and Asari refugees.
On that note, I wonder how many human or Turian refugees might have been evacuated to Thessia. Out of the frying pan and into the fire...
Some are going to the Citadel.
Beyond that the others are probably being evacuated to Alliance worlds that haven't been occupied yet, or to planets belonging to allies to haven't been attacked yet. I would imagine by the end of the war that Sur'Kesh must have had plenty of human, Turian, and Asari refugees.
On that note, I wonder how many human or Turian refugees might have been evacuated to Thessia. Out of the frying pan and into the fire...
Well, it spends a lot less time occupied than Earth or Palaven. The chances of survival are probably still higher. But the safest places are certainly some backwater colonies. I'd imagine the code fragment that helps to predict Reaper ship movements is also useful to find some safe planets.
The chances of survival would be higher on Thessia than Earth or Palaven, given that both Earth and Palaven spend a much longer period being occupied by the Reapers. And much of Palaven was either being contested by the two opposing forces (and hence, probably lots of collateral damage) or being outright bombarded and reduced to ash by the Reapers.
But that would still be a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. Any who were evacuated to Sur'Kesh would certainly be luckier.
Yeah in terms of homeworlds, only Sur'Kesh had any safety left by the end. Palaven was being lost (and your actions only slow the Reaper advance to various degrees), Earth was already under the full Reaping process, Thessia was recently lost but probably has more active victories in the end because they haven't been as worn down as the other homeworlds.
And I think the other Citadel species' homeworlds eventually get taken no matter what we do (Thessia onward chapter), but we can ensure that assets survive and resist throughout.
In the end, it's all about a mad dash to Earth with whatever forces are available. The story pacing felt a bit wonky though, and it only gets worse when Leviathan and Citadel DLC get involved 
If the Yagh get their hands or whatever on you then you might wish that the Reapers had killed you instead, maybe.... They would interrogate you and your death would be very, very slow and painful and take months or years.
Testing different drugs and techniques to get the answers they seek, even for things you know nothing about.
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