I get the historical preservation angle, I just don't think that because the film was released that any further changes are intended to be, or actually are insults to the original artists involved.

I don't mean to insult the original version, but to me the falcon leaving mos eisley was pretty low quality. With just a small blip moving in a straight line, and the lift off from Yavin was just a bunch of red dots that were hand animated to fly up into the sky.

Even before the changes, I always personally felt that those were shots I had to overlook for the greater sake of the rest of the movie.