So ... Is Clown any better ?

Somewhat. The new bottles raised his skill ceiling and nuance significantly, and the reload speed change was great, all of which makes for a decent killer. He's not great, but he's quite average. He still is a very chase-oriented killer, however. The speed boost shouldn't be used for map mobility, since it's just not that much of a difference (unless you really need that speed boost, like to intercept a generator with pop). Now, more than ever, his basekit is heavily reliant on zoning and shutting down loops.

He’s better but still lacks map pressure. His chase potential is great though and just a bit blow slinger imo

He needs another rework, just like how legion does.

He's still god awful if the survivors decide to do generators while someone just throws pallets and I feel like the loss of his exhaustion bottles hurt him more than the antidote and reload speed changes helped him.

I'd say i've played around maybe 300 games on clown? so I'd say that is about 100 hours of nothing but clown. Maybe I am undershooting, it could be something more like 500 games or so but I never manually counted it. Its just approximation. maybe its something like 250 hours of clown.

one of major strengths stronger killers is that they often have unpredictable catch-up/measurement of distance. let me give few examples. Nurse charges blinks, there is no detell sign for where nurse will precisely blink, the survivor needs makes predictions for where she will blink in order attempt to counter-play the nurse. The spirit is another killer where survivors are unable to predict where her phase will start and where it will end. survivor's best attempt to counter-play spirit is to use barriers and manipulate sound against her. One of the major complaints about Freddy is that Freddy short height makes his lunge deceptively long and hard to read for survivors. This plays really well into his strengths because survivors unable to gauge whether they're safe or not a lot of the time.

You would think that Clown shares this strength with his speed bottles where it would be tricky to gauge how close/how far he is towards the survivor in open field and at pallet loops. Well, that simply is not the case. The activation delay for his yellow bottles means that he always has to throw X distance away to gain benefits from his speed-up so he always has consistently, the same catch-up every single time. Not only that, at loops, he has almost no dynamic bottle tossing. Its always nearly exact same yellow bottle placement every single time because he needs account his delay in getting his speed up and he cannot allow the survivor to make the loop otherwise they gain his speed up which cancels his own bottle effect on himself. It also leads to some awkward pauses at loops at times. If his yellow bottle was instant, he could better use his speed-up more dynamically to get hits. this would comparable to how survivors dynamically use dead hard for distance to change what would be a hit into safe play. moral of the story, he is far too predictable in current approach of the game and strong killers are UNPREDICTABLE and the purple bottle does not have enough oof on its own to make big difference in loops which is why his chases are comparatively as long as most M1 killers.

This is why he hasn't improved very much because his gameplay is not dynamic enough.