Okay, part of the Golden Path involves humanity being conditioned (to the point of remembering it in their DNA) to not want to allow a tyrant/charismatic leader to rule over them. So you would want humanity to insinctually scatter as far as possible which involves making sure that they can move anywhere they want which would scatter humanity across the stars. Right?
But why Leto II did the opposite and confine the majority of humanity to their planets during his reign?
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So they would rebel and scatter. Everyone has a breaking point. He wanted them to break and rebel
Specifically so that humanity would have the pent up urge to scatter throughout the universe. Keep them oppressed for millennia until your inevitable (planned) overthrow.
Not only their planet, he forbade most methods of travel, keeping most people confined to their boring home town for their entire lives.
He did it to instill a sense of longing for travel and a resentment to being shackled down that runs so deep, it becomes essential to humanity.
He described himself as mankind’s predator and presumably he did so to evolve the ‘prey’ to a level where they could elude ‘hunters’ (absolute rulers) more efficiently.
If you’re a parent, and you want your kid to move away when they’ve grown up, there are two ways you can go about it. You can foster a sense of independence and encourage them to follow their dream wherever it takes them. Or, you can be such a shitty parent that they gladly leave as soon as they turn 18 and move to the other side of the country so they’ll never have to interact with you again. If your goal is to be a good parent, the former is preferable. But if your goal is to guarantee they move out no matter what, the latter is the only way to go.
Leto’s plan is to give humanity 3,000 years’ worth of collective cultural trauma by keeping them planetbound and under his despotic rule. This would eventually nurture both a desire to explore the stars long denied to them, and eternal resentment toward any future leader who might try and exercise their authority over all of humanity. And for his plan to work, he needed those wounds to be deep. It needed to be something that would echo through humanity’s collective memory for millennia, not just a fad that would peter out a few generations after his death.