I'd guess so. The newer version is much more reasonable in curve and thus more fun. Yeah it's a higher score but it doesn't feel like I could go infinitely. One thing that would be nice though is when I have a board with no moves like here it reshuffles or allows me to make a non-matching move or something. Wouldn't have beaten this level anyways but still a bit :/ to be just stuck for half the time doing nothing.
Still much improved though!