I disagree because describing the less than 5-10 minutes total of changes to all 350+ minutes of the movies as a “remake” doesn’t seem fair or accurate, even accounting for the flexibility of language.

The 1997 versions are the only ones to be have the title “Special Edition” applied to it, so they’re the only “Special Editions” that have ever existed (they’re also, amazingly, now the most rare versions of Star Wars), and everything else is a version or iteration. There are so many versions of Star Wars at this point the idea of calling most of them “Special Editions” increasingly doesn’t make any sense. The editions themselves aren’t even special anymore. The only one that’s actually in any way Special is the one with that title, that got theatrically released in 1997 and was sold/promoted on the basis of the changes they notified us of in advance, which is still the only time they’ve actually done that. And is, again, now the rarest, hardest-to-find version of the film.