It's neither better nor worse, it's just different. The strategies and balance of the castles change, offering more development options.

The dependence on the randomness of the map generator is still present, of course. That's why people quickly realized that starting with 0 resources is not ideal; you need at least 2500 to buy a second hero. This led to the creation of the Chaos patch for Shades of Darkness. The same was done in World of Xeen. And if you start with a bank, the balance of the resource distribution is approximately the same as on a 160% map.