Please understand NAUI's swimming standard. Competent watermanship is still required, it just that you know the competent swimmers from those who can't cut it within a few strokes of the edge of the poor, yes? There's nothing wrong with completing the swim if you want, but please do not assume that the swimming requirement has been dropped.
I quote NAUI's Standards and Policies Manual for you: "...Students shall complete at least 15 continuous stroke cycles..." The old wording was for completion of a 200 meter swim, un-timed, any stroke. So what is this "competent watermanship" to which you refer? I posit that NAUI (and most of the others) have dropped the 200 meter swim requirement because as the population gets fatter and lazier, less of them can actually swim 200 meters without having a heart attack, thereby reducing the pool of avaialble students. Their solution it seems is to relax the standards.
So yes, IMHO, NAUI has in fact dropped the swim requirement, as I don't believe 15 strokes is swimming.