Quite frankly, they could have left the 'episode IV- a new hope' in the crawl and I wouldn't have cared. I've never seen the film without that in the crawl (aside from a bootleg version that a friend of mine had in '77 or '78), so that's the version I'm most familiar with. But, I know that for the people who DID see it in the theater in '77, it may be nostalgic to see the crawl without it.
Quite frankly, they could have left the 'episode IV- a new hope' in the crawl and I wouldn't have cared. I've never seen the film without that in the crawl (aside from a bootleg version that a friend of mine had in '77 or '78), so that's the version I'm most familiar with. But, I know that for the people who DID see it in the theater in '77, it may be nostalgic to see the crawl without it.