I have no idea if you cut it entirely (no spoilers, please!), but I played the AddOn for a few hours now and I like it.
But I loved the dragon-parts of the original game.
Admitted, the Flying Fortresses were some sort of Overkill but really... cutting the dragon parts entirely or at least reducing them as much as it was done is overkill in the other direction.
The dragon transformations were pretty fun and were a large part of what you were. While I enjoy the AddOn a lot I find it a bit sad I cannot fly around as dragon anymore.
Maybe it would have been too much work to build a new area where you can fly around and change at will as it was in the original game (it's "only" an AddOn after all) but... yes...
