Oh please, the only ones bidding to avoid it were the old boilers who refused to embrace the technology. Sure it had teething problems to begin with (like all new developments) but overall it works great.
End of the day the ipads will work fine for the short sectors the 717 performs, the only challenge on the 767 was the long patterns it had projected before a restock (BNE/PER/BNE/PER) or (PER/BNE/DRW/BNE/PER).