Electoral College was a sordid compromise to solve a series of issues most of which no longer exist (and some no longer existed very quickly in the history of the United States) and were unique to Early America.
It's not a model you can export, even if you wanted to (and note that America when imposing democracy abroad a la Iraq plumbs for a parliamentary system).
America no longer has small, rural states?
(yes I'm aware of the current fad about claiming that the EC was about slavery, and I plain disagree)
No, the main issue was that there was no history of central government between the colonies and so had to share power to a degree between them - local identities being much more important than national ones.
It's a long time since anyone could reasonably claim that was true for most of the United States.
