No, what's boring is turning them into basically emo jellies.
"You just don't understand us!"
Part of the appeal of the Nomads was that they were the only thing that was universally feared. Now, its just another faction with alliances here, diplomacy there, and has generally been subdued into something tame and simply put, illogical from the point of vanilla lore.
The fact that you would describe Nomads as "disposable" when they are in fact essential to what is Freelancer shows that you don't really seem to have a full grasp of how important they are as DA envisioned.