Yeah, there’s a few places (cough Reddit cough) where if you even mention Harmy, Despecialized, fan edits, or OT.com, you basically get crucified for suggesting that anything other than the official Blu-Rays of Episodes I-VI should even exist.
Quote I saw the other day from someone replying to a comment meant to explain why fans like us dislike the SEs:
so their problem is that they’re not available in HD? why wouldn’t they want to watch them how they originally watched them? If that’s what the big deal is?
That’s honestly the mentality of the majority of SW fans. It’s incredibly frustrating.
Reddit generally attracts the worst people.
These people you’re talking about are probably folks that have never seen the original editions of the films, and have only seen the special editions their whole lives. Therefore, they’ve no reason to care about the preservation of the originals, and they might think that originals are worse than the special editions.
Or they’re George Lucas.