Well, the ANH crawl version was released in theaters in 1981.
It’s not a theatrical reconstruction though, because the ANH version just had the SE crawl, color corrected.
The 2.6 release had an ANH alternative version that caught a lot of “shit talk” for not having the star positioning of 1981, despite being clearly described as a non preservation alternative, just for fun and by special request.
For this reason, and to avoid any confusion or people accidentally downloading it instead of SW, there was no real release of an ANH version of 2.7. A few people were given a link, but I don’t even think I have it now. One person, of course, made a DVD version from that. 😃
But yes, the majority of people who said anything about it, as above, spoke out against it for not being the 1977 version. The others spoke about it for not being 1981 accurate, which of course is true. 2 or 3 people, I think, wanted it despite this.