Maybe since you guys have seen the original ANH a billion times, your memories interfere with believing the altered shot?

I wouldn't say that. You don't need to have frame-by-frame recall of Star Wars to see that it's clearly R2-D2 and C-3PO. There's just no getting around it, because of the way the shot is framed, around those four characters. Even if you manage to make R2 look like a very different droid, you just look at the shot and ask why there's another droid where R2 should be next to C-3PO. All respect to Adywan's amazing work, it's just with that shot I don't see what the big deal was. By all means, try to fix anything you don't like, after all, isn't that why most of us are here? But if the change fails in other ways, has it really accomplished anything?