As others mentioned. This is a flip of a coin. Like if I was to meet my past self, I would say it got worse. But this x, y, z is why and how to get around that.
It's all about the choices you make and how they can change your future in unforseen ways.
So as an example, a small thing might be drinking beer once. My sister currently is a drug addicted and an alcoholic. She abuses everyone. She gotten involved with some of the worse humans (human trafficking, murderers, etc). She did a lot of illegal stuff which got her on plenty of list. The fact is, I can pin point this down to her drinking beer when she was 14 with her friends, which got her into drugs to start with. If she refused, and did what most thinks to be the right thing. Then those "friends" would've had nothing to do with her. And that means she wouldn't had access to drugs, and outside of maybe a few other things later in her life. Her life would've been 100% different. It is the butterfly effect. But there is no way of knowing if and how it will change your life.