Taking specific data points without looking at the broader context is the exact definition of "cherry picking". That's what you're doing by picking one day in November 2020, or one day in April this year, or only two points. For example, it's true that there has been a rise in deaths since restrictions ended, but it's been nothing like as dramatic as the corresponding rise in cases, and indeed has levelled out in the last few weeks. To ignore that trend, especially when trying to compare with the similar, uncontrolled rises in death rate we saw last year, can only be described as cherry-picking.
I'm not even wanting to disagree with you that the recent approach to Covid has been too complacent, or that we're too tolerant of what is still an excess in deaths, albeit not one anywhere close the scale of last Winter. Too, the picture may well change at any moment due to such possible confounding factors as a new variant, or if a flu wave and Covid wave coincide. But all such arguments are weakened if they are attached to a dubious interpretation of the data that seems to amount, in essence, to arguing that we're no better off now than we were a year ago. This is not true, and I don't see that it's helpful to suggest otherwise. The pandemic is not over, but in the UK at least it seems reasonable to be optimistic that the worst has passed.
Right now, to be sure, it's fair to say that my views are somewhat coloured by how dire things are looking closer to my current locale. Where I am, the daily death rate is 55 and rising uncontrollably, which, when scaled to the UK's population, is equivalent to around 950/day. This is around five to six times worse than the UK's recent peak, and it's going in the wrong direction. This owes a lot to, among other factors, how few people have been vaccinated (less than half the population, as far as I can tell), and how unseriously some have treated the pandemic in recent months. Nor is this country alone in having a bad time of it: much of Eastern Europe is suffering another wave, and will probably continue to suffer from repeated high-toll Covid waves for some time yet if they don't get their act together.