For me is the opposite. Darkseid it's more evil, because he perverses all that is good, rendering all meaningless. All your happy moments? Don't matter. All the people with which you have formed any sort of connection? Don't matter. All the love you have felt for a special person? Don't matter. All your achievements in life? Don't matter.
Everything positive, everything that makes life worth it, he wants to turn it against every single living thing. Every memory, event, story, history, emotion, dream and hope. He corrupts it, makes you feel powerless, makes you lose yourself.
A nightmare scenario is scary, and dying is as well. But to be broken beyond any amount of recognition represents the greatest evil one can inflict to another. And that's what Darkseid wants the most.