Yes it is so much better. But you need a bit of practice to learn all masking features. If you press mask shortcut and hold finger on canvas, it will switch to SelMask and stays there till you long press again. Means once in lasso mode, you stay in lasso mode, even when you leave masking and go back later.
Blur and sharpen are working just by tap on masked area for blur and unmasked for sharpen. No need to hold mask shortcut for this.
SelMask clears mask as well when masking in empty space without holding mask button on top.
Both tools are doing same clear invert when holding mask shortcut and masking in empty space.
I guess that’s it. Masking will be much nicer!