I don't know much about all these archive copies they have laying around in vaults, maybe they are good enough to get a nice looking transfer.
But Lucasfilm has been saying that their prints they have are all in pretty poor shape. To me that says they -could- spend tons of money to resurrect the original picture quality, but they just don't want to.
Regarding anonomous people who claim to be insiders who know all about how Lucas is lying, well, it must be nice they know that information first hand. It still does me no good.
My point is if they don't do any better, isn't this better than not getting it at all?