Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said: Star Wars was a fantastic, academy-award winning 1977 movie. As such, it is a cultural icon for the late-70s. It also represented the state of the art for special effects at that time. As such, every cultural, historical, and artistic sensibility that I know of demands that it be preserved in its original form. Students of the history of cinema should be able to study it, for example. IF a real preservation was done, as it should be, nobody here would mind if GL or anyone else wanted to make updates and release those too. However, since GL is actively stopping it from being preserved, it is natural for film lovers to be angry.
With that in mind, as I've said many times before, it isn't that we "hate" the SE. If anything, some of us sort-of "resent" it, because it has "replaced" the original iconic film. The improvements would be way cool, if the original were also preserved. This has nothing to do with what scenes I prefer, and everything to do with preserving historically significant film art. Until the original is preserved, like virtually every other major motion picture is, the SE will serve as an annoying reminder of what still hasn't been done, may never be done, and the gap that exists in the cinematographic historical record.

Well said, Puggo. That's the way I feel EXACTLY!