Gaming is worse on USA today, that's why I voted "worse" because that is my personal thing, for the country as a whole you almost never can say that for either side. Too many people living there, is better for many, worst for many, it is not like a huge catastrophe happened just because politics is messy. Covid happened, sure, but besides that there was nothing like a national disaster there in USA.
There are mathematical indicators for that. The HDI increased from 0,886 (2000) to 0,926 (2019) so it is better on the metrics covered by this index. If competition is your thing, than it is worse now, as the USA was the 5th best nation in the year 2000 and now (2019 data) it is the 17th.