You will not find such a thing. Economic progress before the Industrial Revolution was slow, but not zero. The further back you go the better the last 200 years look, and the impact of every major war and famine becomes less and less notable. TFA is not cherry picking.

Why do you assume that well being is the same as economic progress? Look, I like indoor plumbing as much as the next guy, but it isn't the only contributor to my well-being.

The primary driver of well being until very recently was agricultural yields.

It doesn't matter how nice your environment otherwise is, if your seed multiplication ratio is below 3, your life is hell.

Statistics and charts can't help you draw conclusions about global history before modernity because nobody was compiling data to either modern or common norms. Scholars familiar with a specific time and place can sometimes generate compelling estimates, but these estimates are usually only useful to looking at trends within the narrow region/time context of the scholar's specialty and not suitable for aggregating across the world or across time. There's no real way around that.

So you're left to more subjective assessments. If you haven't read much history or anthropology, or tried to reason about it, it's easy to assume the narrative of modernity being a triumph over 500,000 years of human desperation and decay. But if you have read history, especially the "small" history of personal lives, or read late-20th-century anthropology, or really thought about the necessities for a classical societies to have prevailed and thrived and grown for hundreds of years, or for tribal communities to carry on in stable tradition for millenia, you can't help but wonder why that narrative about modernity even had traction in the first place.

One explanation being that recent modernity is genuinely a mostly progressive advancement from less recent modernity, and so it's easy to assume that the trend carried back indefinitely. But that's an assumption with no charts or data too, so taking it as the default is itself arbitrary at best.

Even today where everyone is generating massive amounts of records detailing their lives a lot of the worst parts are kept hidden and will never be recorded in a newspaper, or a census, or even a social media post for historians to find. If anything people today tend to present misleading appearance of their lives and that was likely true in the past. Getting an accurate idea of people's struggles will always be difficult for historians.