Yes! Same with the Bajorans and Cardassians. The Occupation was glossed over in TNG (and to some extent even in Voyager), but DS9 fleshed it out so much & showed so much of life outside the Federation.
Setting the series on a station was brilliant, it gave them the power to build the world out.
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There was an episode of TNG with Ferengi as greedy, babbling, idiots. DS9 did it all better.
While TNG is "my trek", and got me through adolescence in HS, DS9 really is the best trek, and the one people will still watch in 50 years.
Setting the series on a station was brilliant, it gave them the power to build the world out.