Eh. I think it could have if it was a pure addition. The loss of the fn & escape was too much for me.

Ultimately I set it to display the fn keys all the time and tried my best to ignore it. I don't look at my keyboard. A display near my fingers is a display where I don't look, I never found much value in it.

I rarely use Fn keys so the Touch Bar is better than a dormant row of keys. But this is true only for my narrow use case.