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If you really think Mother 2 is just a remake of Mother 1 with some tweaks here and there I'm afraid you haven't really played M1 to completion.
Yes, they are similar, and many ideas were kind of re-worked on M2 (Monkey Cave being a proto Satrn Village, and even uses the same music too), but the plot and practically everything makes them different in many ways. The difference is not as notorious as the transition from M2 to M3, but this is mainly because the director of Mother 3 was someone different and not Itoi (Itoi did write everthing in M3, but the direction was not as his charge, hence why it has a more traditional story-driven RPG vibe, director was some ex-Square guy who worked on Legend of Mana series, Live-A-Live and others), and because Mother 3's core plot is completely different than that of M1 and 2.
So, are Mother 1 and 2 similar in many ways? Yes.
Is Mother 2 just a "re-vamped", "re-worked" Mother 1? No. Really, no.

>I still don't understand people who won't play Earthbound because they insist on "playing them in order". Not necessary.

Necessary? No, you can play any of the 3 games independently form the others and you will still understand (mostly) everything, but the optimal way to play the Mother series is indeed playing them in order.
You can play Mother 3 without having played M2 first.... you just wouldn't know who Porky is, or get all the references toward the end of both, M1 and M2.