Personally, a lot of the chages to the SE just go right by me. They are minor effects enhancements and I really don't notice them. Others, however, are terrible for a variety of reasons depending on the given scene. So I reasoned that i could pick and choose which effect i liked and which I didn't, but decided that was a fool's errand and it was better to not care for any of the changes and stick with the originals.
Truth be told, Star Wars is unprecidented in this regard. Sure, alternate versions of films have been around for a while, but that would usually be movies that didn't fair overly well in the first place, like, say, Blade Runner. There are at least three versions of this thing, the original theatrical release, the video release, and the director's cut. This is, alternate versions are often used as a marketing tool for films that didn't do well or find an audience, hence why you'll find few who know or care about the alternate cuts of Blade Runner. Star Wars on the other hand was immensely popular so any additions or alterations needed to be handled with extreme care. Several of them were not. They look like some guy with a Mac and video editing software added those things. And like how one small fly can ruin an entire bowl of soup, these changes ruin the entire trilogy... at least for those who dislike them at any rate. Somehow I think that if Lucasfilm had done a better job on the additions in the SE, there would be no conflict. Or much less, anyway.