Not to say it was perfect in 1.0, far from that due to a lot of missing pieces. Despite lot of improvements in a lot of places, I still think that from the user experience point of view, pieces were more at the right place in 1.0 than in 2.0.
Active covers (sliding and not small buttons), events view (the central piece of a smartphone, that can't be accessed directly now), cover of killed apps in the way letting the user thing it is there but it is not, volume impossible to anticipate (now there is no way to know if you change the ring volume or the media volume when pressing the buttons, depending of if a media app is running or not).

I see a lot of improvements in the different parts of sailfish, from release to release, I just find the main UX changes done for the 2.0 change getting in my way to use it.

Different users will have different views on this obviously. Looks like you prefer this way of the UX.