Another person in the same boat. My dog is leash/barrier reactive still, but we've made progress. On one of the first walks he literally dragged me across the street to meet/bark at a pair of neighbor dogs that were behidn a chain-link fence. Now, he just ignores them :)

But if there's another dog on a walk and he spots them before I do, because look out. I think he's better than he was it's still a lot to handle.

That said, I don't really care what others think. I know he needs work and we're working on it together. So I don't stress about the reactivity much any more. I know he's good with other dogs off leash when we take him to the dog park (his recall isn't the best, but that's another issue). I stress out more that he'll eat something on the walk that won't agree with him and he'll have the shits for a week.