I’m very much interested in the DNR version, but what I’ve seen of the grainy one looks like I could live with it easily. It’s hard to tell having only seen stuff from the first reel, though. There were swaths of the SSE where the grain was just out of control, IMO, and that really hampered my ability to enjoy it. Authenticity is well and good, but at a certain point it just doesn’t look good when you’re watching it on a screen.
I agree with this. Not that SSE really needed to be altered, it’s just the nature of that print which makes it that extra step away from ‘authentic’.
For 4K, I wouldn’t mind the idea of a reasonably managed grain version (similar to really well done commercial blu-rays where there is still good visible grain), but the samples, as good as they looked, were a little too clean. I think focus on the main version is the way to go.