EVAs are still likely necessary. Tethering would be useful.

Indeed, though to keep it interesting we should put pinholes through every tenth one

I see a new action/thriller space movie on the horizon.

Cue Sandra Bullock for At the End of My Tether.

That Movie Guy Voice: Above a world ... where the atmosphere will eat the flesh off your body ... and crush your eyeballs flat, only a thin kevlar tether stands between you ... and eternity...