Vaderisnothayden said:
Examples of SE changes that in my opinion demonstrate a lack of understanding of how the films work:

I'm not normally one to try and second-guess a director's motives, particularly on films I don't like, or in the case of two I never even saw. However, I think VINH has nailed what seems to be the underlying problem with the prequels & SEs.

Lucas seems to have believed that the fans wanted pretty colors, comic relief, and slick CGI. Those things were largely absent from Star Wars77 and the movie captured the attention of the world. It moved people with it's characters & story.

I saw none of that in Phantom. It's not only possible Lucas didn't (and still doesn't) understand what he did correctly in 1977, it now seems like that is in fact exactly the case. His going back and "reinventing" the originals supports the theory even further. Instead of making the second trilogy mirror what worked for the first trilogy - he altered the originals to match what didn't work for the second trilogy.