I suppose the big question is whether this automation results in a better product?
For many years, AEELS on the RC-135V/W (early Blocks, before they re-named Blocks as Baselines) was really very poor - initially so poor that they nearly abandoned the Rivet Joint altogether, and the received wisdom seemed to be that manual tuning by 7 (in 2011, including Rack 6 but not Rack 7) to 9 (2008) or even 13 (1982) AEOs and AEOps gave a much better result than three Ravens on the RC-135V/W, and that the R1 had a capability approaching that of the RC-135U in some respects.
But while the 2011 Nimrod R1 was an impressive aircraft, and had some functionalities still not available on the RJ, we are now up to Baseline 12/13 on the RC-135V/W, and one might assume that the automated systems are much better than they were. They bloody well should be, nine years after the R1 was retired.....