I appreciate that, but my concern is mainly that I won’t 100% sell it and it’ll feel too “fanedity”
I get that, and again - that’s a thing 99% of all fan-editors DON’T do, so that your concern is there is why your edits work as well as they do, and I wish more (WAY more) folks were willing to apply that level of discernment. But as someone who looks at these things with that eye (and ear) I think you HAVE cleared that bar in this instance.
Having done the process of completely redoing SFX a few times, I don’t blame Spence for ditching this idea at all.