personally I think it is too simplistic when compared to UddeIM

That was partially the point. To be less complex to configure and use. If you like UddeIM then it's perfectly fine to continue to use UddeIM.

Although I miss and so do my Club members and many are not code or even html savvy so the fact that UddeIM has it's own basic editor where they can add emoticons and altered text in HTML.

You can have a simple editor by enabling HTML, which displays a WYSIWYG editor, then set your sites editor to TinyMCE then within Extensions > Plugins > Editor - TinyMCE you can customize the editor buttons available per usergroup allowing for as simple or as complex of an editor as you'd like. JCE I believe also provides this functionality on a much deeper level as well. Users don't need to know HTML at all to use the WYSIWYG editor.