Now all Lucas had to do is make a cgi version of himself. It will be better than the original and fit his original vision. LOL!

The Cgi version of Himself will direct the movies at the same quality as he does now without him being there. He can have the cartoon cgi version of Himself yell at the computer graphic artists and tell them which scenes he wants jar jar inserted into.

To answer your question Ziz the Yoda from the 80's the Stewart Freeborn/ Frank OZ one was better than the Rob Coleman cgi one.

Puppets look more real than a computer graphic. They are not ones and zeros. You can actually see them, the puppeteers put a lot of their own humanity into them.

Yoda comes out of the genius that was Jim Henson. Henson was not available because he was doing pre production on the dark crystal so they had Frank Oz do it.

He would have been busy Finishing up the muppet movie for its 1979 release and working on the pre production of dark crystal which was released in 1982.