Mr Ghostface said:
Star Wars was a moderately budgeted sci-fi flick which happened to do big business. If there are minute discrepancies between the position of R2-D2 in one shot and the next, because of the practicalities of the shoot, who cares? Not very many people. If some scenes don't have music, maybe Lucas and Williams know what they're doing? And so who cares if someone spends hours of their time "correcting" something that never needed correcting?

I feel very much this same way. To me the only perfect version of SW will be the original. People can edit and hack all they want, and they will never make a better version of this film. What made Star Wars so special was never the special effects.

That said, I think you are missing the important point that some people DO care about all those nerdy little details in minute discrepancies, even if guys like you and I don't. Not that these guys don't enjoy it as is, but they obviously do find fixing all these things to be very worth while, otherwise Ady's edit wouldn't have been as overwhelmingly popular as it is.

Also, considering you are in "the business", which could mean any number of things, I will hazard to assume you are around special effects work quite often, and are used to seeing on a regular basis effects work being build from the ground up that makes Ady and WXM's stuff look like birdhouses made of popsicle sticks compared to skyscrapers.

You have to understand that something like this being made by amateurs is no small feat, and edits of SW:R quality and scope are not only rare, but entirely unheard of.