You’re all overcomplicating this.

It’s Star Wars, people will but it, even not knowing it’s different.
Casual movie fans almost always prefer a release with Theatrical and Director’s Cuts (which is far more accurate than the Special Edition moniker it has been given.) Two for the price of 1, awesome! I didn’t even know there were two versions, I gotta try it out.
Mike Verta has Legacy ready. Empire requires the least theatrical replacement footage.
Jedi Prints are still reasonable quality to scan for an easier restoration.

It comes down to Fox. I think potentially Lucas signed a secret agreement with Fox to keep theatrical Star Wars unreleased knowing Disney would never do a theatrical release of just ESB and RotJ.

I wish Disney would just flip them the bird, and release amazing restorations of ESB and RotJ in 2020.

Fox looks like dicks, screws over Lucas, buys Legacy from Mike, and releases a beautiful 40th SW anniversary set with tons of special features.

Fans are happy… except the set isn’t matching, with SW getting beautiful retro boxing and ESB/RotJ sold as a two pack in a single case.

Which means we have to wait until 2022 for Fox/Disney to release a trilogy set, and 2024 for a trilogy set with both versions (The 2020 saga set/2023 release featuring only the SE).