No. They're much more difficult to reproduce, and that's why you see the fraud moving from the booklet to the front end.
What we know about the use of e-passports is that once you've locked the chip, it makes it much more difficult for somebody who is a look-alike, for example, to use somebody else's passport. Increasingly, what we see internationally are countries using passports for automated border control. They will take your picture, compare it to the picture on the chip, and do a facial recognition match right at the border control, which will even enhance the security of the process because it will make it even harder to do impersonation.