As long as we get the OUT, I’m fine with and even curious about potential new iterations of the SE.
Same here. It’s important to point out though, that even though the '97SE didn’t come out on DVD, it did get a wide theatrical release and my generation did grow up with it on VHS, so there is definitely some nostalgia for it and nostalgia is very much the wave Disney is surfing right now.
Oh definitely, my earliest actual memory of Star Wars was the theatrical release of the SE when I was seven years old (though I know I watched the Faces tapes a year or two before), and I wore out that set of SE tapes. I just meant that there’s got to be significantly fewer folks who are very interested in that version because it was the standard version for such a relatively short amount of time. Moreover, unlike the small tweaks between the 2004 and 2011 versions, the 2004 cut actually retconned aspects of the 1997 one, so it exists in this weird limbo of being obsolete in terms of continuity without any of the purist virtues of being original. I’d definitely like to watch it if it was included in a 40th anniversary set for nostalgia’s sake, but the truth is I don’t think I’ve felt strongly enough about it to watch the 97 all the way through since the 04 came out (I have watched selected scenes from your Respecialized and Team Blu’s upscale a few times, though).