Indeed, when St. Rafael of Brooklyn made a recommendation regarding them in 1915, the Episcopal Church was quite different, and it is clear his recommendation was extremely specific to the time and circumstances, and also there was at the time some hope by the Anglo Catholic faction of the Episcopal Church that their church could in its entirety enter into communion with the Russian Orthodox Church, but that did not occur, although interestingly as recently as 1947 ROCOR received some Episcopalian priests. And this dialogue also did lead to the organization of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicarate and the ROCOR WRV.
Now, I feel that if we see an area on the map that has Episcopal Churches but no Orthodox parish, and I have identified an area with three Episcopal parishes that is two to three hours round trip from the nearest Orthodox churches, which
@FrThadd might be interested in, such areas are prime candidates for Orthodox churches, since the Episcopal church has been consistently one of the best sources for Orthodox converts.
Indeed when my friend Fr. Steve, who was the last traditional Episcopalian priest in my area, retired a decade ago, I joined the OCA directly (they were had the only Orthodox parish anywhere near where I lived at the time).