I think he just didn’t wanna spend the money on a restoration for versions of films he didn’t like. Thus why we got LD transfers on those DVDs.
It’s a moot point now since the master would already be outdated, but they could have done an hd transfer in 2006 comparable to the then “official” version from a couple years earlier. It probably wouldn’t have looked as good detail-wise since it wouldn’t have been from the o-neg, but it would at least have been a modern transfer, unlike the GOUT.