LFL chalking up people's desire of the OOT to nostalgia and using it as an excuse to dump it onto disc was indeed really shitty. At the end of the day, I can't boil down their motives to anything else than money. If George is willing to show it, there simply is no other reason for why he isn't willing to show it the right way. With the 30th anniversary approaching, it seems to me that next to no one cares about the films themselves and just takes whatever LFL says without a grain of salt. Last semester I overheard someone in my film course say to someone else before the class started "I don't even think of Star Wars as movies anymore, to me it's more like a way of life" or something to that effect. This was of course around the time the GOUT discs hit. The other guy was voicing his plans to pick them up and the first guy said "don't, they're non-anamorphic." I think he also implied that the SE's were better but there was no way of knowing what he really thought on that matter without me asking him. I also chimed in and told the second guy not to pay 60 bucks for the original versions. Actually, when you really think about it, the problem is kind of two-fold. People don't care enough about the Star Wars movies as movies and also aren't technically savvy enough to know that the GOUT discs are shit quality. LFL has certainly exploited this. We now live in this world as Star Wars fans where no one is right and no one is wrong. And you're correct, it's all because of GL.

One funny thing I've been thinking recently is that if GL really is persistent about not giving a shit about the original versions, maybe future historians will look back and see that he actually did the world a favor: he made people move on from Star Wars.