I want to start off by saying that I'm grateful to Rikter for preserving the ABC-TV extended broadcasts and to ADM for the extended edits, but watching the movies one-by-one in preparation for Phoenix, I do get the sense that the original versions are tighter and better paced. You could certainly add some of the scenes back in without sacrificing too much of it, but deleting some of the scenes was the right call.

So yes, I think there's room for a variation of an extended cut. Maybe a fan edit of the extended cut?