People are willing to drop hundreds of dollars on bootlegs and those s#### DVDs from 2006. Those DVDs that Lucas himself felt compelled to release. Millions of people have downloaded the Despecialized Edition. Popular American icons have publicly let their distaste of the SE known. Disney may not care for those versions of those films, but they care about money. You will never convince me that only a fringe want the OOT. The demand is there.
Agreed.
It would be more accurate to say many people would prefer the original versions but they simply haven’t been released and most (but not all!) of those people saw that there’s a blu-ray, said “close enough,” and worried about the more important things in life.