Are there any forms of progress and what many call improvement that doesn’t cause suffering or frustration onto others?
Progress seems to need either a level of control or disfranchisement on individuals before it can be enacted.
How about “self progression/improvement”?
I try to continually progress and improve my “self” regardless of what others think/do. Does it cause suffering/frustration onto others? I don’t know–I don’t think so. Would I even care if it did?
“Social progression” does need a level of control on individuals before it can be enacted. This is where the master/slave dichotomy first arises in human history. It is a powerful dichotomy that has not yet died and may not ever die, for good reasons…
Its impossible to make everyone happy all the time. Progression does not have the monopoly on that fact
I can assure you, with 100% certainty that no matter what you do, others do, we all will suffer as long as we exist.
On top of that, there is a possibility that physical death doesn’t end this suffering.
If you feel hopeless, you are wise. 
If you hapeen to find any hope in anything, try as hard as you can to achieve it, so that you get to know as soon as possible with undeniable full mental/emotional/physical conviction that it’s a delusion, finally. 
Welcome to happy suffering hell park !