Starlink latency is still too high, and goodput is too low, especially as they oversubscribe their service. This will help a bit, but it’s no panacea for Starlink’s woes.
If it’s on the other side of the earth it beats everything.
Routing these packets around the planet would be a huge waste of their limited electrical and transmission resources.
So it will depend very much from where to where. The certaintly can go direct.
It would be interesting to know their internal routing logic but I don't think we know.