Yes. Looks like the braid’s been soldered on last, making it difficult to remove the baseplate. You’d have do desolder the lead wires first, which isn’t that easy a job. You might do it with a solder sucker, but desoldering braid might be better. Even so, a big risk of the wires still being connected by solder if you pull them, and those coil wires are easy to snap.

I think the risks outweigh the benefits here. If you mod anything, mod the bridge pickup.