My biggest problem with him is NOT his penchant for editing and re-editing, but his unrestrained affinity for dwarves, badly executed cgi, fart jokes, and any other "gumdrops and lollipops" that will feed his marketing empire. In the 70's, he was a visionary of the independant film movement, rebelling and spitting in the eye of the evil corporate studios. But, now he has become the very thing he had sworn to destroy.
So, if he's intent on editing it his way, and not providing us with the original, while turning the long-awaited backstory into a trainwreck that looked like something the bloated corpse of Walt Disney barfed up... (Okay, that was harsh) ...Then I say "screw it, I'm editing it my way". And I encourage the rest of you who spend time on message boards bitching about the things you hate about the saga and how Lucas dropped the ball to do the same. You don't like it? Edit it to your satisfaction then. Or bitch about it to someone who's in the process of making an edit with the hopes that they'll address your problems.
Even if the Prequels were bad, there are some good things about them. They can be rebuilt. They can be made better. And the OT can and has been returned to its original glory.
Like a kid with an alcoholic parent, I just think there's something within all of us that has such a love for Star Wars that it compells us to want to make it right. Call it an intervention on behalf of our childhood.
--ID