Why?
Because you've pulled the trick LFL/ILM tried to 10 years ago. Their attempt left us with mixed feelings (at best). Your attempt revived in us the excitement that Star Wars was always stirring in us, in the old days ("before the dark times"). Even thought my contribution to your project was nothing but mental (spiritual?) support (therefore I feel I'm not worthy to be mentioned in the credits - but thanks anyway
it feels cool to be mentioned in Star Wars movie 
), I was rooting it all the time (despite the fact that I don't frequent forums as often as I used to be). I saw that not only you really love SW (as most of us do), but you really have that subtle sense of knowing what to do - what is better left unchanged and what needs to be fixed - and in both cases you can explain why. This is the difference between you and those new LFL guys - they were simply changing things "because we can".After watching your edit it became even more striking to me how their edits were often out of place (like e.g.: how Vader's arrival at SSD is copy&pasted in TESB finale). I mean your final product is more seamless than theirs - and we have to take into account the fact that they had the technology available (yes, that was 10 years ago, but digital compositing and 3D meshes could be successfully used back then, thank you), extensive archives and huge resources as well (editing facilities and $$$), while for you it was "just" a non-profit hobby project.
What does it mean, did they simply made a rush job? Were there no people who actually love the movie and know what's best for it? Did they simply lose the subtlety after all that "faster, more intense" years?
Isn't it sad that we can only get well thought and thoroughly developed products from fans, who can't be paid for their work and have limited resources, while the companies who have the license and resources at hand can only provide us with "rushed", unfinished or otherwise unsatisfactory products? I was drawing such conclusions after I started playing with the idea for a new SW game, which I cannot realize primarily because of the license problem.
Maybe the should've start hiring fans?
I'm not very much into the fan-edits thing (so far I've only seen yours and Jambe Davdar's fan-doc -which for me doesn't count as edit but as documentary movie). It's often like repeating Lucas' error - if the movie can be "customized" and people start "add this, add that" we end up with 483 versions of SW
Everybody has his/her own taste and so do I. So of course: there were moments in your edit where I agreed completely with your choices, or where I was pleasantly surprised by things I wouldn't have thought about before, on the other hand there were also things I didn't like very much or where I preferred the "old school look" of the unaltered original. But when viewed as a whole thing, your edit passes the test. I would even say that from now on if I'm going to watch any special edition of Star Wars (how many we have now, the '97, '04 ...? they altered it with each DVD release...) I will choose yours.To sum up what I said - once again, thank You for spending so much time to bring us so much joy.