I strongly recommend to read this paper of Sharygin. (It is in Russian, but it worth to translate.) You will see the reasons to return EG in school, you will also the reasons why it disappears.
Sharygin is my hero, he is the author of many very good math books for school students, he also wrote the best (the opinion is mine) text book in Euclidean geometry for school.
P.S. Let me share what I know about the history of geometry curriculum in Russian school. We had textbook of Kiselev, which served for more than half sentury. It was changing slowly, at the beginning it was quite close to Euclid's Elements. After that (60-s) changes start. First Nikitin's book --- a big step back. After that, instead of comming back to Kiselev, many books were written by very prominent matematicians (including Alexandrov and Pogorelov) these books were yet worse than Nikitin's book. Later Sharygin's book appears which is a very good book but extremally demanding from the teacher (say absolute geometry was not discussed, but if the teacher is not familiar with absolute geometry then he can not tech properly).
Conclusion: It seems that every big reform makes education worse. The right direction would be to change things gradually, and it has to be done by teachers with help of academia, not other way around.