I think so.

If you make each zoo busy enough with animals you will be spending alot of time managing them. Then throw in managing the staff so that they are efficient. You will soon complain there is too much going on rofl.

If you're concerned whether the price won't fit your personal gameplay interests, you can always wait for a good sale and stick with the base game until you feel it is more like your game.

There is plenty to do between animals escaping, starving or becoming stressed. Managing litter, education, guests hunger and thirst may even drive you bonkers. Guests eat a lot of food.

If you still enjoy management our tons of stuff that can go wrong or right still fun!

Well, I suppose that depends om the player. Yes the game has fairly robust management aspects. Most players will get how they work fairly quickly.
There are several game types to choose as well. The career game is where players learn to play and manage issues in mostly prefab zoos. Challenge mode is similar but with more freedom to build. Sandbox is a game type where players may disable various aspects of the game to suit their play for any type of play they desire. Franchise is the game for long term players.
In franchise players open a franchise that can have many zoos within it. each zoo is opened independently. Players may also select from easy, medium and hard difficulties per zoo in franchise. The difficulty affects many aspects of the game which all affect how well the player must manage the zoo.
For those that feel less creative or players that don't want to build too much, the steam workshop will offer many things for players to add to their zoo fairly easily. They range from simple buildings to whole habitats and even complete zoos.

That's a lot of info but maybe it helps you decide...

I wouldn't say so honestly, this is primarily a building game with animals in it. Much of the management is also just plain annoying and unrealistic rather than engaging, such as guests disliking staff buildings, animals getting upset over specific species of plants and the power requirements. I only play sandbox with the annoying management turned off, for that reason.

As someone else pointed out, the steam workshop is abundant with creative builds of all sorts, so if you're not into the whole fine detailing of building, go through the workshop and add whole habitats and buildings :D and spend the time picking and breeding the animals you want.
I guess it could work, I personally play the game entirely for the building aspect though ^^'

I'm not much of a builder myself, except where layout is concerned and that's certainly about management; optimising the habitats and the guests behaviour
I more enjoy the challenge; working through career mode and then in franchise mode having a community challenge every couple of weeks

So it definitely works for me on that level, and the base game is more than enough to keep you busy for quite a while

Layout...hmmm You could play around more with the mechanics of water and terrain. That can be fun. :)

It still is! I’m the same way tbh, I just enjoy raising the animals and doing all the zookeeping stuff. I’m terrible at building the zoo, especially starting from scratch. Thankfully, there are TONS of templates/presets you can download from Steam Workshop, from tiny restrooms to whole zoo itself; all kind of things. I usually grab a bunch from the workshop and customize from there, ‘cause yeah… creativity from scratch just isn’t my thing.

I'll also add my initial game play in the early years .. all my habitats were simple and covered what the animals needed and thats all. I rarely combined animals together and tried to keep everyone happy. My primary goal back then was to get as many of the animals in my franchise zoos and get zoopedia ( still not quite completed that achievement yet rofl ) and breed and trade them to other players. I didn't play the community challenge every time they occurred but definitely the easier ones and hopped in the zoos that would help me complete the challenges.

Now, 5 years later, I experiment more, think outside the box more and even try the harder community challenges .. and .. then I start over and remove all but a handful of animals and a favourite zoo and rethink new ideas for zoos.

Managing wise .. as mentioned before, hard mode is my chosen difficulty for my personal zoos, I am constantly managing the animals, the more species, the more managing. As was mentioned, it can be annoying for some players, so that would be an individual thing to consider. Easy mode is my chosen difficulty for the community challenge zoos.