Attempting to erase the originals from history…that’s a completely different matter though.
That’s simply not true. Never did he attempt to erase them from history. For a while he might have attempted to erase them from the free market, but not history. Empire of Dreams is essentially about the making of the OOT, he released them in 2006, and he included some old, classic documentaries on the making of the OOT as special features.
Empire of Dreams was released in 2004 and is pretty bad when it comes to revisionist history actually (though not really in regards to SE stuff).
And the classic docs didn’t show up until '11.