It's the most successful fork and much more useful (both security wise and even just from a pure spend-ability perspective) than Bitcoin Segwit. If we get Segwit+Lightning, then maybe we will see fees drop, which would be greatly needed, but that's still only one aspect of the design.

I'm curious though, why do you think the old address format was better? The address change stops funds from potentially being missent and lost by the user.