I can’t imagine why. That sounds more like the pro-SE only crowd updating their arguments against the OOT to me. I’m sure they thought a release would happen in the wake of George’s departure.
Pretty much anyone with any sense thought it would happen in the wake of George’s departure, but since when has this whole situation made any sense?
Lucasfilm still kept the older, no-longer-canon books and comics in print under the “legends” banner, so the pro-SE argument of the unaltereds going against the official versions doesn’t work to begin with.