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I had cataract surgery late last year.
Vision has improved pretty dramatically.
Scores are improving after a couple of years of pretty dismal performance. During my last check up the Doc said I had scar tissue forming at the surgery locations that can be corrected with a simple laser surgery. So far it’s not an issue.No dominance issues. I will squint a little with the left eye when shooting peeps or scopes but not open sights.

I'm right handed with a left eye dominance. I've shot rifles and shotguns from my left shoulder since I was a child. I've even fired belt fed machine guns from my left shoulder.

My view is that eye dominance isn't as simple as just right or left eye, but more of a sliding scale. At either end are people that have an eye so dominant that any attempt to use the other eye would be difficult to impossible. In the middle there are a few people who have no eye dominance.

People should do what makes them shoot the best, no the way other people think they should shoot.

My brain will get bored and shift dominance. When I was zz-bird shooting a lot my shooting coach noticed it. It caused a number of unexplained misses that he caught while looking over my shoulder while using a wobble trap for practice. The answer was a smudge on the left lens of my glasses which then forced me to be right eye continued dominance.
In the field I don't think it it is much of an issue.

Fascinating subject, as always. The best shooters are consistent in their eye and hand dominance... and then there are the rest of us. Growing up in the early 1960s meant that you were encouraged to be right-handed by your parents and teachers, but maybe not as hard as they were doing it in the 1950s. After much discussion on the subject (by everybody mentioned) my parents allowed me to remain a southpaw going forward. It is my understanding that the reason so-many young men stuttered in America in the 60s and 70s was because they were forced to be right-handed in the 50s and early 60s (the physiology of all that needs to be explained by someone other than me, something about overloading your speech center with your motor-control center?). Anyway, I was left-handed but of-course right eye dominant until I had laser surgery in 2000 (for myopia and astigmatism) whereby then I became more cross-dominant, meaning that neither eye was superior. That surgery was life-altering for me in so-many ways (showering with my wife was far-more fun and my shooting improved dramatically), but time has a habit of changing things up, eh? Now my left eye is so occluded by "floaters" (a gift of PVD) that my right eye has again become more-dominant. Not sure what to do next. Just keep on shooting, I guess.