Is that good or bad ?
You can only make a silk purse out a sow's ear within limits of possible optical correction. The physical beam source/diode has horrible/poor beam quality to begin with and that is not going to change no matter what you do.
Your question is equivalent to asking which flavor of plain or french vanilla ice cream is good or bad. In other words your question is entirely subjective and not simply answerable. There's plenty of information out there on divergence, Rayleigh Length and how to measure it.
You see, no matter how you ask the question it still comes down what you prefer.
You are right --is that good or bad, it is subjective and almost meaningless question with relative to what not specified.
Intrinsically a NUBM44 diode laser has a poor quality beam so is never going to be really good good, as in an excellent gaussian laser beam sense.
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