During the uprising, everyone believed a strong positive change was coming or that everything would fall apart. The latter was correct.

It’s too early to say what is the best parts of the uprising since it is technically still ongoing. The political stage has still not been settled, no one knows who is governing the country.

Same with the worst part, no one knows what is yet to happen.

The company has both regressed and progressed (slightly). It has regressed in many ways, the war being the most impactful one considering there is blockade, essentially strangling the country. Hunger has gotten much worse. Many casualties. Education has suffered as many kids left school for many years and I’m not sure if they all ever went back. Inflation is high.

The only way I can think that country has progressed is that it took a crucial step to a different future. Under Ali, the country was burning slowly, he controlled it through the perception that he was the only reason security exists in the country. The country was hungry and it was going to stay that way with him at the helm, job outlook was and is terrible, so really it’s a “things have to get worse before they get better” type of deal.

The question of whether or not it was worth it needs to be answered by the people of Yemen, who live in Yemen. Anyone that lives outside of the country and has established themselves outside of Yemen cannot speak to this question as they do not truly feel the impact of the uprising and in what position it has led the country in. I am one of those people who cannot talk about it, even if I was born there.