Oh that's unfortunate, if a significant portion of the people buying these cards end up swapping for the hybrid it would be great if at least the nice blocks could be reused.
Would I be correct in guessing that the replaced caps are the 2.5V polymer cans at the output of the VRMs? Did they get swapped to surface mount SP-caps or similar? I can't seem to find a shot of the HC PCB floating around.