Oh absolutely, I have never regretted getting it done, not once. There are some side effects, but they usually only bother people who shouldn't have gotten it done in the first place, with -1.50 vision or so. When you start out blind, being left with a little bad night vision and some odd starbursts around some lights is no big deal.
For the record, I do now have a little pair of glasses that I break out sometimes while driving at night; my vision has regressed a bit in the last ten years and is not perfect anymore. But it's still a million times better than it was.