This restoration is obviously a spectacular effort and project...awesome. But not "restoring" it to the state of the art when it left the factory leaves it a bit short of justice done.
These mighty airplanes deserve nothing less than respect for their origins. Isn't that why they get restored in the first place ?
Regulatory authority objections ? You can pay for a ride in some restored B17s here in the US. They have round gauges.
Here is a restored airplane (perhaps not the equal of the subject Connie). Notice the roundness of the gauges. It seems fitting:
And perhaps F/Es are in short supply...so you make them out of energetic guys from the hangar. They've been up to their elbows in the machine and know it better than you do anyway. The young ones will be energetic enough to jump the hurdles to the license.