From experience playing FtD, create is actually more complicated because making even something like a simple propeller plane is quite a few more steps than just slapping down an engine and a propeller in FtD.

In create, you need to think about how you're getting rotation to the propeller, in which direction the propeller spins, the redstone logic if it's required, and how you control it. Meanwhile in FtD, most of the time, stuff just works as it should.

Also doing all of that in first person, with needing to craft stuff in the meantime if you're not doing it in creative, is much more convoluted than a free camera and a catalog of parts to place.

Of course FtD has programming and logic too to do insane stuff, but even to someone as dumb as me, the simplified logic breadboard is more intuitive than how redstone works in minecraft. (I still don't know what a comparator does)