I tend to agree. And while her affiliations with Scientology are amusing I can't say I ever cared about Linkin' Park on that level for it to bother me. Chester's vocals were always worthy of a degree of admiration, and they've done him justice with by bringing on Emily.

That said, careful calling her his replacement; not everyone's so keen on that terminology due to some loaded meaning, even if it is on some levels technically accurate. Successor may be more apt.