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Ticket to Ride unfortunately did nothing for me.
My friends and I had been playing mostly Catan for about 5 years before we tried Ticket to Ride. It just didn't feel very strategic, but maybe that's because it was our first time playing. It felt like the cards you were dealt basically determined whether or not you would win, and "blocking" someone else didn't feel like it was truly worth the effort. Years later, my CS and EE professor would say how it was a fun game because of how it actually resembled some problems in networking, but I just never grasped that level of depth.
I like Ticket to Ride, but more to play with people that are not into games. Something easy, just a fun session in the evening with parents or other relatives.
That's exactly the group of people where I enjoy playing it quite a lot, too. Ticket to Ride Europe is now also family-owned.