Better than Gravel, Gary Johnson, Dennis Kucinich, Duncan Hunter, Ada Hutchinson, Ben Carson…
I'll give you Rand Paul may have been a better 2nd choice.
Each of the candidates left other than Haley and Biden are better than anything we've had a chance to vote for in an era. Each have what may well be dealbreakers for the libertarian or the independent or the Trumpanon or the jaded… but that's a good spectrum for funneling sentiment for the DC swamp political consulting class that doesn't know how to leave well enough alone and allow an election to happen and/or is not naive enough to think everyone could at once