Some people are just obsessivly hating him. Even if he did something that was great, they would spit on it.
Granted he hasn't been the king of good decision making latley, but forcing himself to write isn't inheritly a bad thing. He had to do the same thing with the original movie, didn't he?
And weren't the Special Editions his "passionatte rejuvination" of what he originally had to force himself to write anyway?