No. TicTok is exactly the same except with more of that garbage. I don't know why your first thought was to assume it had something to do with the ban
Rather it clearly seems to have more to do with the fact that TikTok is just incredibly popular and is not being well moderated.
An example would be that TikTok is allowing straight porn to go right through in lives. You're allowed to say that all men do not deserve, meaning death threats are allowed on TikTok. They allow hundreds of channels to get around the advertisement rules. There are hundreds of ad accounts made by AI bots that post the same video over and over and it doesn't trigger any kind of alert.
All you're seeing is TikTok being used by humans for their own benefit. But when used in that manner it just destroys the app itself because no one wants to see any of that shit.