I personally think the theatrical cut of ROTS does not match up to TFA. I do cringe at many moments and there are still just a lot of nitpicks that I have with the script. But when Hal’s and L8wtrs edit are mashed up it brings ROTS up to a whole new level for me.

It really lets many moments shine and cuts a ton of those awful lines. Hal restructures the order of events for Anakins fall effectively so that it’s more believeable and relatable. And it makes scenes that used to suck, far better. Anakins confrontation with Obi Wan at the end originally made me frustrated with how irrational and idiotic Anakin was being. But the edit really brings out genuine tradedy for me. His conversation with Padme is farrrrr better in the edit. And most of all, when Anakin is burning, with the music, Ewans acting etc., I feel such pain for both characters and feel such sadness for Anakin. By watching Hals episode 1,2 and a mashup of his and L8wtrs for 3, it actually accomplishes the main goal of what I wanted the prequels to do, which is relating to this character and feeling actual genuine pain and sadness for his turn to the dark side to make his turn back to the light, evermore effective. Not to mention the other gems that now can shine such as the opening space battle, the fight with dooku, the opera scene, Order 66, the beautiful diagoule-less scene before Anakin leaves to save palpatine etc.

All in all, I still think I would say TFA is a better movie than fanedited ROTS. But I really enjoy the fanedited ROTS and consider it on the same level as Jedi. I compeletly understand your opinions and they mean equally as much, it’s just this is my own opinion on the matter.