They are only copying and echoing the voice of their master George Lucas, who started the whole contempt for the original versions of the films.

Note these debates did not exist prior to the 1997 special edition trilogy and the release hype for that and the prequels.

Most of their views probably start with Lucas and the making of the special edition documentary, plus through the years lucas re-iterated that those were the final cut of the film. Then he did a second cut in 2004, what he considered just tweaking a few things.

Lucas considers the originals rough drafts he was forced to release, even though each was a finished work.

Though Lucas is not entirely alone when it comes to an artist revising and revisiting their works. Stephen King did it with the stand, and the dark tower series. But king did not try to wipe the old versions of the books out of existence. Neither did Spielberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron no matter how many times they recut one of their films. All their movies are available in Anamorphic and good quality original versions.

Lucas is a singular entity when it comes to the original films being laserdisc dumps in the year 2006 in non anamorphic. How many other billionaire artists who have a rightfully beloved classic and try to make it unavailable or if made available grudingly in poor form. To try and make the revised version look better and to force people to watch the 2004 cut because it is restored and anamorphic and the 1993 is not.