Yea, I don't know how they'll regain their eyesight back though? Not unless Auri-El gives it back? We know they are still capable of magic, fighting, forgeing, alchemy, and I'm sure enchanting. So all their really lacking is a language and eyesight right?
Eyesight, language, and a minor problem with the desire to commit mass murder. The Dwemer reduced them to blind, primitive, hate-mongers. Cavemen could make tools, so them doing stuff like that doesnt really show all that much intelligence. They need to develop into a society from the ground up and that takes a long long time.