Good post DF. The fact of the matter is, you can't please everyone. And if you try you are just going to make a mess. From what I understand, Lucas changed the course of the PT on multiple occasions to appease fans, and as a result we have an uneven trilogy. Fans get rather... fanatical, they want all sorts of things that might sound like a cool idea in their head, but end up being an awful idea in the end. It is the creators job to put the foot down and say, these are MY movies, I'M making them, you just sit back and watch them when I'm done, or don't.
George has proven himself perfectly able to say such things to fans, if fact it is what he always says. But then his actions often show that he goes back on what he said in order to conform to public opinion on the matter.
No Star Wars on DVD until after Episode 3 is out, he went back on it. No original trilogy, he went back on it (in a very halfassed kind of way). I suppose, this sort of liquid spined behavior should be comforting, as it is the sort of thing that may possibly get us the OT on DVD.