The reason I get mad at this, is you have a whole younger generation of fans who are getting a different message mostly about the OT, but the saga as a whole cause Lucas refuses to say anything in the past he has done differently.
You don't know how many younger fans, mostly PT lovers, tell me that SW '77 was never a standalone movie, it was just a setup to a 6 part saga Lucas has planned in 1975. He has brainwashed them into believing the OT is the story of Anakin/Vader and not about Luke, so I have rarely seen any younger fan seeing 1-3 first, even like or love the original SW. Because they perceive the story as Anakins now in the OT, the only parts they find interesting are Cloud City & the last hour ROTJ that features Darth Vader. There are so many younger fans who find the Han, Leia, Luke parts boring or what they call 'exposition' to get to the real story. What they call exposition, I call them the heart of the saga!
It is not about Lucas changing his mind from 12 to 9 to 6 episodes, its that his ego won't say, "You know what, I originally planned 9 episodes, but I just didn't want to do SW my whole life, so I kinda changed around the saga using the PT to bring out Darth Vaders backstory, and even though the OT is about Luke, it makes Vader story much different now." Thats fair, instead we get, "The 9 episodes was a media fabrication, it was always about this father and these twins." -2004 DVD Documentary. But Lucas knows Darth Vader didn't become Lukes father til ESB, and Leia didn't become his sister til ROTJ!
Bob Zemeckis really struck me with his quote on the Back to the Future Commentary, "After the first movie, we put to be continued..., but it was a joke, I had no intentions of any sequels, until it became a huge hit. I never had this master plan of a trilogy like George Lucas did with Star Wars. It was always one self contained movie, and then Bob Gale and I wrote the next two movies totally out of the blue." Zemeckis could have lied, and nobody would have known, but he doesn't need to be revered as having everything planned out for his trilogy.
Sound like another trilogy we grew up with from 77-83? I just think the older fans get fed up with Lucas not ever just fessing up, and being humble. If Lucas would say today that Darth Vader wasn't Lukes father in the original SW, I wouldn't care. To me that would be interesting on the Episode IV commentary. I would love to know how & when Lucas decided to go with Vader as Lukes father. I would love to know what convinced him to do it, did he see the popularity of Darth Vader as that main reason? I would love to know when he decided to go with Leia as Lukes sister, did anyone joke, "You know George, they did smooch in the last movie?"
I would totally interested if George gave the real story of SW, how many notes did he really have back in 1975, how many episodes did he want to do? But I think it is the utter frustration that has built up for the past 10 years from fans knowing not that George Lucas is changing the story, that doesn't bother me, but that he never EVER admits it.
Just as he said in 2004, "If you want the O-OT on DVD, you can get it on VHS!" I don't hate him for statements like that, but quotes like that really makes it hard to love the guy anymore.