I, for one, am really pleased that this project is denoised. I’m much more of a grain agnostic than a lot of the folks here, and it’s been kind of disheartening to see every single 35mm project go the same “grain purist” route. I’m happy to finally see something more in line with my own preferences.
I think the reason for the pro grain route is not so much that the people here enjoy watching a really grainy film (though I expect some do), it has more to do with simple preservation. That’s how it was in theaters. In my projects, and I think Poita feels this way too, if I can give you a nice baseline digital version of a print, looking as close as I can make it to how it looked in Theaters on the day it was released, then you all can take that and make it your own. It’s really very easy to remove grain, denoise, sharpen, modify the colors and generally make it look how you think it should look. Just drop some plugins into your favorite editor and see what they can do. However, if I do all that for you, it is so much harder to undo those changes. Ask anyone who has worked on a project here - “is it easier to add DNR or to remove it?” And you’ll understand why this is the better way to do it.
In this case of course, you already have access to the original, dirty, grainy Grindhouse Edition to play with, and I’m very pleased to see that Dreamaster was able to something great with it. If this is not to your taste, then you are welcome to create your own version too. And “I don’t know how” isn’t really an excuse anymore. There are thousands of tutorials on the interwebs explaining how to use After Effects, Premiere, AVISynth, etc. Just jump right in and see what you can do. It’s not that hard. Heck, even I can do it!