I still think cities skylines 1 is better than cities skylines 2

I got into an argument over this with my friend. He says that cities skylines 2 has bigger maps, better road design tools, mixed density, etc. my argument is that all of this can be fixed with mods: unified ui and other road mods, using find it + move it + those population blocks, and for what I’m doing for my project is a region system like sim cities 4 (interconnected maps). Basically the new features of cities skylines 2 can be solved with mods. I also think cities skylines 2 looks worse than cities skylines 1, idk what to think of it but IMO modded cs1 or even base cities skylines 1 looks better than 2.

Let me be clear, I think cities skylines 1 is better for me, my friend when it comes to games is a bit of a normie so I can see why he thinks cs2 is better than 1. However i personally like to suffer while playing cities skylines by doing big projects, which is what cities skylines 1 excels at compared to cities skylines 2

Cities skylines 2 just doesn’t have all the mods and stuff cities skylines 1 has, at least at the moment. Look at Akuras’s city of asturis on YouTube, it is truly a work of art and this can just not be achieved on city skylines 2 as of the moment, and even when it does it won’t look as good as city skylines 1. So what I’m trying to do right now is a city like Chongqing, china. A futuristic vertical city. I’m achieving this by utilizing move it, find it, procedural objects, unified ui, ploppable surfaces, custom assets, and other mods. This doesn’t have to be for futuristic cities but merely any city

Even if cities skylines 2 gets all of this there’s no point for people like me to buy cities skylines 2 to get the same experience as cities skylines 1. Basically what I’m saying is if you’re a cities skylines 1 veteran then there’s no point in getting cities skylines 2. Cities skylines 1 has everything it needs and there’s no point in switching.