That mirrors my experience with the matrix.org homeserver. It has not improved much over all the months.
Meanwhile, the performance of the matrix.org server has definitely improved massively over the last few weeks. We hit a performance ceiling from May through mid July, but since July 19th or so we've finally got CPU headroom back again thanks to stuff like https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1019957885026144257 and https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1022095383978233856.