As for the Kennedy interview you wouldn’t be altering the films, the OT before the special edition existed for 20 years. With the exceptions with the A New Hope edition redone starfield, redone credits, different sound mixes and Empire having a different 70mm premier cut. But when people say original they mean before all the cgi shit was added, as Phil Tippet said.
I’ve noticed Lucas seems to want to keep the conversation about his right to alter his movies, something nobody is questioning. He can change his movies how he likes as far as most of us are concerned, I’m sure. We just want the option of seeing high quality versions of the originals. Could he really have always hated the original versions of these movies that have made his fortune so much that he wants them erased from history?
Kennedy wouldn’t be altering anything he’d done by pushing for the release of the OOT.