I won't mourn for him, but as we've repeatedly seen in the Middle East, killing a real bad guy doesn't guarantee what comes next will be better. Or that it will last.
Guy is/was 86. His power/control was solely a function of the Republican Guard, which isn't gone. If he had just croaked from heart failure yesterday, not much changes, but at least the change would be orderly.
What we ended up with in Iraq isn't measurably better than what was there before, Afghanistan is probably worse. And we had boots on the ground.
This could go sideways many ways.
I'm struggling to come up with an example in modern times of regime change in a brutal dictatorship that ended up resulting in a nice Democracy.
The best example I can come up with is ... Ukraine? Most of the examples ended up WORSE. And they were all smaller and less economically powerful places.
I don't count places like Czech Republic which were basically occupied.
Fingers crossed.