Because they have a deep appreciation for art, period? That's why stuff is preserved in museums and such. I guarantee you every curator of every museum doesn't think every piece of art in it is great. I'm sure some of em think a goodish amount of the stuff housed in their walls is actually pretty crappy. Doesn't make it any less a work of art. It just makes it BAD art. but if you believe art needs to be preserved, you should preserve ALL of it. That's the goal of film preservation societies all over the place. They don't want ANYTHING to go out of print or be lost to the elements ever. And if anything, this forum has become less a Star Wars forum, and more a film preservation/editor wanna-be forum. And don't take the term "wanna-be" negatively, either. It's sort of like streetball--there's some GREAT playground players. Doesn't mean they don't wanna be in the NBA.
And who says nobody here wouldn't LIKE theatrical versions of the Prequels? Believe it or not, there are prequel fans here. I understand why you wouldn't think so, after spending all that time writing and re-writing, but there are people here who, if you offered up a "Prequel Trilogy Original Edition" to go along with their Original Trilogy Laserdisc rips, would grab both so they could say they have the ORIGINAL Star Wars saga in it's entirety. That's a film fan sort of thing right there. It's why some of us still have old, out of date dvd releases and some Vhs stuff, even though we can get things on DVD still.
Wait for the release. We may be surprised. With Papanoida, we never know
No, the reviews are out. We know. Nothing got changed.