A couple thoughts:
The unemployment/job numbers are a fraud game that has been played for too long now by both sides. If someone just stops looking for a job they are no longer counted in these numbers. Because Dems set up a system where people made more sitting at home on unemployment than working you now have people who don't want to work - even if the extra unemployment goes away. You see this now when your favorite restaurant is closed one day during the middle of the week and when they are open they close off entire sections because they only have a couple servers.
Gas prices are still extraordinarily high and if you consider the current small drop to the rest of the year and last year, it's not good. In June gas prices went up 11.2% (a 60% increase from the same time in 2021), so to see it drop to the point where it is still over $4.60/gal today is better than over $5 but nowhere near good enough.
Today the report came in on inflation and it's 9.1%. Horrible. That will start to hit everything quickly. The Fed will absolutely have to raise interest rates again. This is all going to snowball and once winter hits and the price of heating your home skyrockets it's going to be ugly. So if you hang your hat on some of these "improvements" it's not going to end well and a lot of people are going to suffer.