5 months later. Left eye .25 astigmatism, right eye .75 so further improvement was made. Distance vision at 20/30. Using 1.5 over the counter readers and no lenses for driving. Had to be patient.
I also had cataract surgery (about 6months ago) with a monofocal toric IOL but only in my right eye since my left eye won't need surgery probably for several more years. I had about 3D cylinder astigmatism in my right eye and from optometrist eye exam refractions I have about 1D residual astigmatism but the power ended up very close to PLANO for distance focus.
I'm getting about 20/25 uncorrection distance vision most days, varies at times maybe between 20/20 and 20/30. Of course I would have liked to have gotten that astigmatism down closer to zero, but I expected due to all the variations in individual cornea healing, etc. that a perfect result was not realistic. But considering how poor the vision was before the surgery, I think this was a very good result.
I still need glasses anyway since my left eye needs correction for about 2D astigmatism and the very small Rx for my right eye gets it to 20/20 at the same time. When the time comes for my left eye to need cataract surgery, I will hope it can get closer to a perfect result but I won't expect that. Best expectation would be able to be glasses free around the house for casual things, but expect glasses for best vision for driving, reading, etc.
If someone didn't have a cataract that affected the eye's vision significantly, I wouldn't recommend lens replacement surgery just for trying to be glasses free.
That is amazing result given how much you started with. It's possible the 1.5 D residual astigmatism might continue to recede but likely not to the level of the LE. Glasses should correct the residual astigmatism.