I doubt it will ever get any better for immigrants, for the following reasons:

• The majority of the voting population is completely un-informed or mis-informed about what the real problems are, or how the immigration process works. I bet most don't even know what USCIS is.

• There is no political will for either party to do anything to fix the problems. Politicians in both of the large political parties love to use immigration as a political football with talking-points, so it doesn't seem that they actually want to fix any of the problems.

• The combination of the facts that (1) USCIS is supposed to be mostly self-funded, and (2) There is no political will for the legislature to appropriate more funds to the USCIS, and (3) The staffing level of the USCIS is currently incapable of keeping up with the incoming work-load at the current level of fees that they collect ----> The result is that backlogs and wait-times will continue to increase, probably indefinitely. This has a compounding effect with the back-logs, since longer wait times will cause more phone calls, more inquiries, more expedite requests -- which probably takes away from USCIS officers from doing the actual adjudicating of cases.

• As we have seen from the prior presidential administration, a series of executive orders from an "immigration-unfriendly president" can increase the time that it takes for USCIS to adjudicate cases and process immigrants paperwork, leading to even more delays.

• There sometimes seems to be an attitude among some immigrants (after they've finally become a LPR, or have naturalized), that "I had to go through this onerous process, so I think other immigrants should have to endure all this crap too!"

It's pretty bleak IMO.