Reasonable minds can certainly differ on this, but overall I do like the faster-paced game. I live in Iowa, and Iowa high schools adopted the 35-second shot clock starting with last season (Side note - I was actually a radio play-by-play announcer on the infamous 2016 Iowa 4A/large school state semifinal where one team stalled all four minutes of both overtimes before hitting the game-winning shot at the end of the second overtime. I feel like that was the game that eventually led to national adoption of the shot clock in high school, even though it took 6-7 years). Even in high school, a shorter shot clock improves the flow of the game. Conversely, I actually think a shorter shot clock actually helps good defenses that work on getting stops. Before the shot clock in general or the shorter shot clock, offenses could get away with more with defenses that weren't good at getting steals.
I always had this conversation with the coach at the high school where I used to live and did the radio play-by-play. His team always played great defense, but they never blocked a lot of shots or got a lot of steals. He was always hesitant about the shot clock, but I would always tell him that a shot clock would be great for his team. If they play great defense for 33 seconds without a shot clock, the opponent can just keep passing the ball around. With a 35-second shot clock, if you play 33 seconds of great defense the other team is forced to take a bad shot.
While I don't want to see the NCAA go to a 24-second shot clock like in the NBA and the Olympics (30 is great in my opinion), I feel like the day is coming where the NCAA will just adopt the FIBA/international/Olympic rules as their standard. The big tell for me was moving to the international three-point line.