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?