re: Has any show gotten so much better after a character left than better call saul

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Best character on a flawed show was Lalo

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I don't concede the show was flawed, and Lalo, while fantastic, was mainly a 2-dimensional caricature of a character that we really didn't get to know in depth. Much like Saul was in Breaking Bad. I get that you'd have probably liked to have seen Lalo's character developed more, but the entire premise of the show was about how Jimmy McGill evolved/devolved into Saul Goodman. All the characters (except Kim who had a parallel change with Jimmy) were there mainly to serve that purpose.

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the story line involving him and Nacho was where the show got back to the genius of Breaking Bad.

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That wasn't the story they were interested in telling, though. They already did Breaking Bad. This was a completely different show. And I'm sure it wasn't a lot of Breaking Bad fans' cup of tea. Breaking Bad was absolutely brilliant and exciting, and probably much more re-watchable than Better Call Saul for most people, even those that love BCS. But I think Better Caul Saul was probably the better piece of "art." They learned a lot from BB, and think BCS is everybody in every department on their absolute "A" game.

You prefer a more exciting story--hell, almost everybody does, so this is not a judgment on you or others who feel the same way--but they told the story they wanted to tell about as well as humanly possible. It's a fricking masterpiece.