I do agree with you otherwise though. It’s a shame that Lucas’s revision of history has been so successful. The majority of Star Wars fans my age don’t even know about the original versions, and those who do just see the campaign to officially release them as whiny fanboy complaining. I’m glad that I was able to find this community and the fantastic preservation efforts going on here, but the chances for an official release of the theatrical cuts are looking more and more slim every year.
I wish Red Letter Media/Plinkett made videos about their desire for the original versions to be released in addition to their prequel reviews. That they didn’t made people think the prequels being bad were the entire problem, so when Disney bought Lucasfilm, people thought Darth Ownership of Lucasfilm had thrown Emperor Lucas into a reactor.