More important is the increase in projected area ahead of the CG, which will make that number bigger.
My analysis is X-plane based, which while imperfect, I have the experience (20+ years) to have high confidence in it.
Besides which, Marc Zeitlin has reported real-world flight experience showing the same thing.
Improving the aesthetics is certainly a worthwhile thing to do in my opinion, but not at the cost of noticeably worse handling and performance. Indeed, my goals are to improve handling and performance, which includes developing new airfoils more suited to the much higher performance anticipated compared with the original Long-Ez.