My initial answer is yes...but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will still do the sprawl even if the guy is holding L1 when trying to do the takedown, despite not having it.
We needed a way to add the sprawl that didn't involve new control inputs.
We figured people were complaining about the risk/reward of power takedowns, so why not kill two birds with one stone.
Now that we've fixed the power takedown database bug though, you're right we'll see it a lot less than we would have.
I'm kind of toying with the idea of having it play on singles as well since they end up in side control, but other people are talking about making it timing based.
We may also just leave it the way it is (very likely).
I'm curious to hear people's opinion on it though.