I'm mildly torn about placing bus stops before placing your lines. Although, I think I'm leaning towards being happy about it.
It's been convenient to just click once when creating stops on your line. But, I'm thinking that we'll end up putting more thought and care into where the stops actually go. That, and if I need to edit the line and I happened to remove a stop, I don't have to hunt for the exact spot where it was previously.
I saw a suggestion someone had where holding shift would add a bus stop while drawing a route. Say you have 2 routes down a single corridor, you'd only map out the stops on the first route. Without something like this I can see making bus routes becoming extremely tedious
I think it makes more sense this way, as irl you have a bus stop and some bus lines stopping there. And as you say, we'll certanly put more care where to place them.
Me too, on one hand it will take more effort to plan the stops first and then create your lines, but it also makes managing your lines easier. Something not necessarily better but just different, perhaps?