Definitely much better than the first (which I dropped after a few hours), big part of it being the actual tcg being a lot more fun with some of the later sets being added, although that era still had some bs rng and annoying status effect. It also does a lot more with the deck building by constantly asking you to switch up your deck to play around changing rules from fight to fight, and just overall gives you a lot more cards.
Pretty solid game overall, but more recent adventure card game definitely did things better (mostly thinking about ygo stuff since pokemon tcg hasn't had anything since)