You can play a lot more hands from the btn and co.

Filter for utg, utg+1 and hands worse than 77+, AQo+, AJs+, KQs - and re-evaluate those.
You can prolly play a 10% range profitably from UTG at 2nl, but if you can then you can play a lot more hands in position.

Take a standard hand where you raise preflop and get one or two callers - any hh will do, but change your position to the btn... and then try to plan out the hand in terms of how to extract the most value. And then put yourself in first position on the flop and try again. It should become apparent why one is much more favorable.