Most of the nearby stars are red dwarfs and these present exoplanets possibly suitable for us as far as we know. Yet Earth does not orbit one of these, but a less common yellow dwarf. This strongly suggests there is a reason.
The Earth's locale is in a bath of various radiations from our sun differing from that of other planets. This issue could go to life or consciousness.
The Sun is pretty much in the middle of the Main Sequence, and so is the among the most common stars ( graphic from Wikipedia is a plot showing 22,000 stars ), and is slightly smaller than average. And since stars evolve through there lifetime, to some extent we are seeing withing exoplanet detection range a certain cohort along the stellar evolution effect. Given the known age of the universe compared to the lifetime of stars, and the statistical distribution of star birth conditions - so, depending who is doing the counting there are going to be far more red dwarfs, and so a vastly higher probability one will be in the very exact configuration that allows for detection ( among a quite a few other observational biases ). See https://xkcd.com/1298/large/ , the JWST will help considerably to improve the sample space. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_sequence#Dwarf_terminology )
Our star has a long life time, so evolution is able to develop highly oranized life from scratch.
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