I had only seen the OOT a year before the SE's came out with the "faces" boxset, so I didn't have the 19+ years experience with them as some of you had, but after the "new car smell" so to speak faded from the SE's, I realized that they were just revisionist crap and that most of the scenes were redundant and pointless.
When the Prequels came along 3 years later they just didn't have the feel or the "soul" that I found in every movie of the OOT, I don't think they are the finest movies in the world but I am not a Prequel-hater.