To be fair, Macau casinos are the preferred method for wealthy Chinese to bypass capital restrictions and move cash out of China.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-people-use-macau-to-laun...

I suppose.

But if you have actually been, it is quite underwhelming in scale compared to Vegas. Though certainly less low-lifes hanging around than Vegas, and much more cleaned up. To be fair, Vegas had decades to build up its now empty hotels.