but as far as i read it, the changes of the SSE version are beneficial and don’t actually change the movie as such besides keeping some of the better (visual) changes ?
I mostly agree. Like others have said, the color grading is a bit too yellow for my taste. And I prefer the completely theatrical mos eisley entrance. Other than that and a few things, I definitely consider many of the SE changes to be very nice. I just go with Adywans revisited since he deletes the worst changes, keeps the best ones, and then improves on those changes and makes countless improvements himself. It is a damn fine fanedit that is the best version of ANH hands down IMO.