Doubtful, EoC made dungeoneering alot faster and more efficient.
Unless that's what you mean - too easy for people to max it completely, now, and it was already the fastest skill to begin with.
It does seem to have died because everyone who did it has finished it, so perhaps you have a point.
Carve our dreams in sanguine stone/Strength corporeal and of mind
Walls of our flesh, bricks of our bone/Deadly intent to defend our kind