Imagine the rebels landing on Endor in their shuttle. Instead they show it flying and then cut. Now it's parked.
PT Lucas would've shown the shuttle coming in for a landing. Needless.
Lucas really got into the whole thing with the SW SEs. Like the one you mentioned from ESB SE and also the Falcon lifting off from Bay 94 in SW. I liked the old when when it just blasted off and the troopers look up.