The problem is with the SE, there are two actors at the end of ROTJ now, Shaw & Hayden, plus there is a different ending in ROTJ too. The CG stands out in SW, or ANH now, that wasn't there in the OOT version, so that is why many fans like myself get mad, cause Lucas is fucking with the OT movies.
I think you underestimate how many people don't like ESB/ROTJ who loved SW in 1977. I think many fans became huge fans because they really liked SW in '77, but loved ESB in 1980. That is why the OOT base is so huge, you have 2 huge groups of fans whose favorite movie of all-time is either SW or ESB, and NO movie series has that. Most people I know love Superman:The Movie, and like Superman II, or love Terminator and like Terminator 2, but nobody I know has a majority of fans who love Terminator as their favorite movie of all-time, and then another base of fans that love T:2 as their favorite movie of all-time, and that is why the OOT base is so huge.
I still think if Lucas never changed the OT movies one bit, many of us wouldn't care what PT fans think of the saga now, just as ALOT of people I know laughed at Yoda the puppet and Darth Vader being Lukes father in 1980, they thought that was utterly ridiculous and ruined the series. But the bottom line is Lucas didn't go back to SW '77 version and change dialogue between Luke/ObiWan that jived with ESB now, or added effects to come closer to ESB/ROTJ so they would flow better. The bottom line is the movies worked from 77-83 for a hell of alot of people, and Lucas didn't need to change shit, and that is what bothers people like me.
I can't get excited about the upcoming Saga Boxset next year cause I know Lucas is going to change the movies again, and it is to the point where he is just tainting the things in my mind, cause you keep asking yourself, "Is this it?" The only driving force of me being a fan is the end game: The OOT on DVD in great quality.
If Lucas would have just kept the damn OT movies the same, I would have gladly bought boxsets, HD boxsets til the day I die. Even if each of them contained the PT movies, it would be all SW to me, and I just wouldn't watch them as much. But now Lucas is asking me to continue being a fan when I don't like the SE or PT? Thats the problem, and that is why I think the SE/OT is the worse thing that happened to SW, not the PT. These same people who love the SE, would love the OOT just as much if it came out in great quality today, so I believe Lucas never gained one fan from the SE, he only alienated a whole lot.