I really don't know whether they made that guy look better or worse.
I liked that first episode! What you might critique though, is that it doesn't really show too many extreme variations of pizza. Sure, some ideas are different from Italian pizza, but there's almost nothing that's absolutely groundbreaking.
That being said, the first episode is great to watch if you're a food enthusiast. But if you came looking for something distinctly different from Chef's Table, in a way that you want to see uniqueness to an extreme degree (which is what I was expecting), you probably won't be satisfied with Ugly Delicious.