Strongly disagree.
For me, the environment was more friendly looking, the presenters were better, there was no or very little embarrassing cheering after the simplest ‘announcements’ (‘we call it liquid retina’ - ‘wooooo hoooooo!!!’) etc.
Last, but not least, some really new technology.
P.S. just to clarify: I’m an Apple user - but the September events get more and more boring each year, imho. I thought the Pixel event was refreshingly different.