This recent release makes perfect sense. Lucas has no love for the OOT. He's said so and everything he's done from 1997 up to now fits into that, even this release. I would have been amazed had this been a full restoration, but we got a shoddy release. Nevertheless, it falls prefectly in with Lucas' dislike for the OOT. Why should he do a turn around and release it next year? It doesn't fit in with what he's said and what he's done. Everything he's said and done falls into that dislike for the OOT, so he is being consistent.
I think it's more likely that Lucas released this edition to 1) get us to shut the hell up and leave him alone about it and 2)curb the bootleg market. That's it!!! There's no reason for him to give the OOT a second thought now that it's out there. Now he can put out his newer SEs which all fit his original vision in one big set and that's it.
Everything up to now makes PERFECT sense. Lucas releasing it again remastered next year doesn't make sense at all.