As far as the digital alterations to SW go, it’s increasingly clear that George Lucas has been deliberately seeking to make his films worse - turning himself into the villain he himself foresaw in his 1988 speech to the US Congress.

Playing both sides of that particular argument, rather like Darth Sidious, though it should be obvious where his sympathies actually lie. (And unless I’ve much misread things, despite all his public statements to the contrary, it’s not with the Special Editions.)