I’m with you in not liking the Bane arcs. In fact, I dislike the idea that the Bane character was ever written. But it was definitely more palatable in this format. The editing itself is definitely better in III than the previous releases.
I don’t think he’s going to do much in terms of really taking elements out of the series entirely. He has already said that SpiderMaul will be in it, but hopefully not as prominently (SpiderMaul was the only thing worse than Bane, IMO).