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And for the first half of episode 12, before the plot goes back to acting like it wasn't written by Disney and shows off the new universe, this concept is absolutely thrown out the window in favor of Madoka literally sprinkling fairy dust everywhere and going HOPEHOPEHOPEEVERYONESHOULDDIEHAPPILYHOPEHOPEHOPE.
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Except the concept was never thrown out, its still there. Madoka merely changed the balanced state of hope and despair to another state. Madoka gave an enormous amount of hope to the world by making witches no longer exist anymore. To counter that, all the negative emotions of humans form and become demons, and A LOT of demons form, if the ending is any indication.
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Changing the system so that, instead of being cursed into becoming the very things they gave their lives to stopping, they share the same fate as... every regular, living human being on Earth is an objectively positive change for the Magical Girls. I'm not sure how you can say otherwise.
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Your forgetting that the magical girls still have Soul Gems, and that using magic and experiencing negative emotions still darkens their gem. It may be easier for magical girls to work together in this world, but they still rely on the grief cubes for survival, which probably means they still compete with each other. Being a magical girl can still mean a life of loneliness, and a life still filled with suffering. They are still fated to die, this time by fighting demons. Madoka's wish just slightly makes their lives easier, giving them a sliver of hope, by saving them right before they turn into witches.
You can't compare a magical girl's life to a normal human. They still go through all the suffering of the original system, with the exception of becoming witches.