I guess I’m a little bit of a contrarian when it comes to fan edits like this, but are you sure you aren’t “doing too much”?

Let me start off by disclosing that frankly I’m not usually a fan of radical fan edits, and I suppose this edit isn’t “for me” at the outset. I get that, and I understand. I saw Star Wars Revisited when I was in high school and while I loved it back then, looking back I’ve turned back into a purist and increasingly more and more of a Despecialized and 4K77 kind of guy. So I admit at the outset that this probably won’t be my cup of tea.

With that being said, as someone who loves both the PT and the OT, some of these changes I am not sure make sense, even in the context of “prequel era storytelling”. I am assuming that the viewer in your edits will be watching the films in “story order” (i.e. 1-3, Rogue One, then ANH) rather than release order.

The crawl. I don’t think it needed editing at all in fact. Even back in the original 1977 copy, a fan watching the movies in “story order” can piece together that the events of ROTS and Rogue One. The first two paragraphs basically are a plot synopsis of Rogue One. The audience already knows that the Republic has become the Empire from previously watching ROTS and RO, so the line “The Galactic Republic, once a beacon of unity and peace has transformed into the oppressive Galactic Empire” is unnecessary.

1a. This is more of a reply to honestabe earlier in this thread, but even acknowledging the deleted Luke binocular scene earlier in the film, the reason it was cut was because with it in, the movie was jumping back and forth in various places too quickly. In the original draft cut of the film Luke shows up only about four minutes into the film. In the final cut, he is introduced about fifteen minutes in. For the first few minutes of the movie, it would be awkward to cut right from the shootout on the Tantive to a shot of Luke just… farming.

Remember that in dialogue, its always best to start the dialogue as late into the conversation as possible, i.e. start a scene in the middle of a conversation (in media res) and cut away the moment the point is made. Luke’s introduction on the farm doesn’t really properly introduce him the way it does later on in the finished film.

Some of the changes don’t really make sense, even in the context of the PT. For example…

“Removed Luke’s initial reaction to Leia”. Luke doesn’t know she’s his sister. For all he knows, its a beautiful princess from a distant planet; how could he have possibly known? This also extends to their kiss in the rescue sequence. Neither of them knew. Its only weird in hindsight, but we only have that hindsight as someone watching the PT first.
Remember that Obi-Wan is telling Luke that “I haven’t gone by the name of Obi-Wan since before you are born” and “I don’t remember owning a droid” and “Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough” because, in his point of view, he’s trying to protect Luke from the truth that Vader is Luke’s father. Yes, Obi-Wan is lying to Luke. He wants Luke to think that his days as General Obi-Wan Kenobi were a long time ago. He ostensibly made up the story that Luke’s father wanted him to have the lightsaber because, in a certain way, Obi-Wan sees himself as Luke’s father figure. And Obi-Wan never owned R2. During the Clone Wars, his R4 unit was on his Jedi fighter but I don’t think Obi-Wan would’ve considered that “owning” R4. Jedi aren’t meant to own possessions anyhow.
“Leia no longer calls Obi-Wan Ben” - in the Kenobi series, young Leia calls him Ben often - even more than she does Obi-Wan. Now it makes more sense to leave that line in than to remove it. She knows Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ben Kenobi are the same person. Its an example of the later retcon actually making this seeming ‘mistake’ make sense.

I am wholly against adding music from later movies, even ones from ESB and ROTJ, to ANH. The Imperial March was a HUGE addition to Star Wars when it debuted in ESB, and adding it to ANH cheapens its eventual debut in the next movie. In that same vein, playing Battle of the Heroes over Obi-Wan and Vader’s cautious saber duel is almost cartoonishly dissonant that even Adywan removed it from Revisited. It never really belonged. Tonally speaking, silence fits the mood of a tense, cautious fight between old Obi-Wan and a fearful Vader. The last time Vader fought Obi-Wan, he lost.
On a related note, why remove Obi-Wan calling Vader “Darth” when the Obi-Wan series, which showed that previous fight, added the context to the line? If Vader truly wants Obi-Wan to understand that Anakin is dead and only Vader remains, then Obi-Wan essentially going “yeah sure whatever, dArTh” is warranted. Obi-Wan says it to mock Vader.
Adywan’s edit of the duel, and especially Scene 38 Reimagined, in my opinion, miss the point of this duel entirely. I understand that the real-world version of why the fight was so choppy and slow was because nothing of the kind had ever been attempted before, and that David Prowse (in full costume) and Alec Guinness weren’t exactly stuntmen, but respectfully this is not a prequel fight where its more of a dance than a fight. Obi-Wan doesn’t expect to win, and Vader doesn’t want Obi-Wan to try any of his tricks like he did the last time they fought.
As a whole, I’m not a fan of replacing practical effects or lack of lore-accurate hyperspace or adding background effects to internal cockpit shots. I wasn’t even a fan of many of the CG additions made to the Special Editions, because it seems like an insult to the ILM team of 1977 to replace their hard work with someone else’s CG work, especially CG work that can look dated over time.

Once again, I realize this edit isn’t “for me”, but at some point there comes a time where these fan-edits Ship-of-Theseus an Academy Award-winning film into something that its not, and that will always rub me the wrong way.