Nah, even if you look past the weaker cartoony graphics it wasn’t doing anything close to Days Gone on a technical level. Less action on screen, weather poorly implemented (in comparison), empty surroundings. Doesn’t hold a candle to Days Gone. IMO
Just the animal ecosystem is more complex than anything inside days gone.
Also there is basically no npc to interact in days gone, i don't know how can you think that saint denis or any city in rdr2 is more empty than any location in days gone...
The quality of the animations, the humongous number of unique scripts (with mocap even for 30 sec events) is so far beyond anything inside days gone is not even funny.
Dg has a better weather system, but rdr2 has far more realistic mud and snow real time deformation that actually slow the movements of the characters and it's not only for show. (At least you feel a bit of difference while driving the motorcycle)
Also rdr2 is the game with more microdetails in existence, this is probably the biggest difference between the 2 games, rockstar has so much more money and manpower compared to bend, it's not even a fair comparison tbh.
I mean, rdr2 is widely recognized as the best technical achievement of last gen, days gone is good, but rdr2 was a juggernaut, shitty controls or not.