Jimbo, you've got me wrong there. I'm not argueing along the lines of "good/bad". I'm more into "was possible/was not possible back in '77-'84". Making Luke scream while taking the escape plunge from Vader surely was possible back then, that's the point I meant to make. It's just another example of Lucas changing his mind, yet claiming it couldn't be done back then due to technical limitations of the time.

The list I posted above, contains all the FX that truly weren't possible at the time the films were originally made, imho. All the changes not in that list were possible back when the films were shot and thus prove that the SE were mostly about giving Lucas a chance to go back and have his way with his changed mind about a great many things - not about improving SFX.