On a first thought - yes - but then again it would mean to exchange those strange people here with other strange people :D I would like to have back the old EP days ... but at least this is as close to EP as we can get.
SW-User
I would definately try and see which one is better. If EP was the way it used to be, I would go there in a heartbeat.
I would go back only because you could do more. SW if it does not want to become irrelevant needs to go beyond being a temporary placeholder and let the users make this place ehat it could be. The permanent "read only" staus in groups makes this place not much more then a message service for former ep users.