Hate to admit it, but it’d make a lot of sense for a Special Edition version that is revised to accommodate subsequent development of the story to trim the line, “I don’t seem to remember ever owning a droid.”
I wouldn’t want to take more than a cautious step or two down that slippery slope. But what would you all think about such a change?
(While thinking about people not recognizing R2, I’ll just say that in my headcanon Obi-Wan must recognize them but Yoda doesn’t. And that R2 and Yoda had never met, adjusting anything in TCW to fit that idea.)