2 pretty much perfected the already great 1. Yeah there's a lot of stuff, and picking from a huge list for what ride to make can take more time, but as you said you can do a lot more.
I like having more stuff, though a lot of it does go unused. Great if you want to theme an area though. Meh, might have to see if I can get the game to play nice on my PC. ¬_¬