Let's not get carried away there. It certainly was better for some people, but it still was wrong, just the same.
I used to think that.
However, observing what has actually happened has convinced me that the real lesson of South Africa from the past 40 years is not that apartheid was bad, but that multiculturalism/diversity in a democratic setting is a terrible idea that eventually always blows up, one way or another.
It was better for everybody except the communist racist monsters who seized power with their boxes of matches and their "necklaces".