Well, what were they thinking releasing the 3 disc set in '05 and then the no effort original versions the year before an expected mega box set? Even if the OOT was still non animorphic, a box set would have sold better if it had everything else like the deleted scenes, then fans would have been thinking "it's the best we're going to get for a while."
I'll tell you this, I only started searching for a internet list of changes to the films after I got the '04 dvd set. That's when I found this site because I was interested in seeing and then getting a copy of the original versions. I did not own any previous vhs releases and hadn't even heard of laserdisc. I learned a lot about the films as well as a lot about home video. I learned what animorphic video means too.
In other words, if the original versions that we have now had just been released in the '04 box set, I would have been perfectly happy because I wouldn't have known to expect better.
I'm wondering if anyone else thinks Lucas wouldn't have pissed off so many people as much if he had merely included the letterbox original versions the first time around and then waited for this year to release another OT dvd set.