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Grant,
In general the only advantage you get with a 2" eyepiece is the potential for a field stop larger than 27mm (this is the practical limit for 1.25" ep's) with the resultant increase in field of view. If you have a 32mm Plossl type eyepiece this will probably have a field stop of about 27mm diameter. This ep will beliver you the widest field of view in your scope using 1.25" ep's.
I notice you are using an 8" LX200 which I assume is F10. On this basis the the largest field of view you can get with this scope using 1.25" ep's is 0.8 of a degree or 48 arc min. I understand you can fit a 2" visual back to these scopes. However, I also understand some of the wider angle, longer focal length ep's can suffer vignetting due to the design of the scope. I have not operated this type of scope myself but there are other forum members here who could advise you further on this.
As you are using a LX200 I assume a "finder" eyepiece is not really required.
To respond to your question on long term strategy I would ask the following question:
What are you intending to observe?
If you are generally observing objects about 30 arc min or less in diameter then these will be nicely framed in eyepieces with a field stop of 27mm or less depending on what you are looking at. In this case the required FoV will be delivered by 1.25" ep's. If you are not happy with the quality of the Meade eyepieces I would suggest trying some alternative 1.25" eyepieces in the first instance.
If you want to frame IC2602 (Souther Pleiades) into a single field of view you will require a true FoV of 1 degree or more. To achieve this in the LX200 you will clearly have to use an eyepiece with a field stop in the 40mm + category. This will require a 2" ep.
Hope this is of some help.
Cheers,
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