Easily better than the Whedon version. Motivations better explained, backstories fleshed out, vfx on Steppenwolf is 10000x better, etc etc.
With that said, that doesn't make this a great movie. If blog/msg board posts and YT vids have to explain gaps in your editing...you didn't do your movie properly. Yes, it was supposed to be two movies, blah blah. (That's on WB execs for wanting to force feed everything in as short a time as possible to catch up to the MCU. Getting there first matters.) Do it right, do it organically and you wouldn't have this overall weak product.
The first half of this might as well be
Justice League: The Musical
Notice though that Cyborg's intro doesn't get the angels-singing treatment
WTF is with Snyder and slo-mo shots
Leto is still meh
Ditto Gadot
Ditto Miller
Cyborg had a much larger role to play than previously advertised, Whedon did Fisher dirty
Joe Morton
Aquaman giving everybody the side eye is still
And my biggest problem with this is still that.that's.not.Batman. The Bat doesn't use guns, get it right.