Non-crimp fabrics (NCFs) consisting of UD stitched together even on a speciallized Liba machine or similar can still have a surprising amont of crimp due the stitching shoving tows sideways, in-plane crimping if you will. I have seen NCF material with lower stiffnesses than five harness satin woven.
Also, a five or eight harness satin weave ply is quite similar to two plies of UD; you should be careful to balance warp-side down on one side of the ply centerline with weft-side down in the other half.
As noted above by berkshire, woven material can exhibit greater toughness. The CAI value for woven laminates is often higher than for UD ones. I have no CAI data for NCF to oompare that. Also, fiber bridging usually gives a higher value of ILSS for all-0° laminates. This course cannot happen with NCF or woven. With multidirectonal UD a lower than anticipated ILSS can be a result.
I have also seen some counter-intuitive behavour from a laminate of mixed UD and woven. Heater mats for a high-temp repair without autoclave pressure caused disbonding between the UD and the woven. Even harness-satin weaves have no 1-direction and 2-direction thermal mismatches. UD certainly does.
A woven laminate (even harness satin) very rarely has any measurable bend-twist coupling, whereas UD (even if NCF) always does if any angleplies are present.
To summarize my and others' above points, the answer I would give is 'Yes, quite often, but usually at the expense of toughness and some other more subtle laminate characteristics.'