People get angry when you laugh at George’s vision and say yeah which one. the 1977, the 1981. The 1997. 2004, 2011, 2019 for streaming and 2020 for physical for maclunky.
People have every right to like what they like. I also can prefer the original film.
I’ve never disputed Lucas right to change his film and have authorial control over it, at least when it to comes Star Wars 1977. What has been argued is preserving the original.
Empire and Jedi he didn’t direct them. Now Kersh may have been fine with handing his film over to George, to draw over it with cgi crayons. But Richard Marquand was not around to object to Return of the Jedi’s many changes over the years.
And still, both go against promising those directors final cut over their film.