No, other countries around them also have Islamist hardliners running their governments, and they are generally better-off. I think these particular Islamist hardliners seem curiously indifferent to the well-being and prosperity of their citizenry, and that this war gives them an excuse to double-down on their decrepit incompetence and delay reforms. I do not think that they are fanatics because they are orthodox Muslims. I think they are fanatics because they have abandoned any interest in good governance, in order to pursue utopia by violent and tyrannical means. Ending the war won't change that.