Whether or not the cockpit is any good/makes a huge difference to the operational capability of the crew was not really a huge consideration. The new glass cockpit is there simply because it came with the engines as part of an extant EC mod programme that had already been fitted to other nations' Pumas. To redesign it or try to keep the old analogue cockpit would have cost more, much more. Remember this was a Life Extension Project, NOT an upgrade (the 'U' word was forbidden!), cost was everything.