This is still the most frustrating issue preventing me from playing the game the way I’d like to. While it was already a major limitation in PC1, it’s even worse now - since it’s no longer possible to completely remove the kerbs, and every ride has those unnecessary lamps placed on the pads. I see no reason why they were added in the first place. In PC1, there were at least some workarounds for these limitations (like using invisible paths on the flat ride pads), but none of them work anymore.
Sadly, I don’t have high hopes that they’ll make any changes to the flat ride pads at this point. Still, I wish they would at least add options to fully toggle off the kerbs and lamps -and bring back the ability to use invisible paths on the ride pads.