Maybe it's just built-in obsolescence. Good enough for the time being, but with the potential to be dressed up in new clothes and trotted around like it's a new thing. Like the corpse in Weekend at Bernie's.

I would love it if Scorsese's speech made a dent in Lucas' anti-original stand. But he probably thinks his creative vision is more important, as if that's why the movies were changed in the first place. And these days a lot of fans will back him up, claiming their support for the artist. Meanwhile, they aren't out there preaching that line every time someone wants the original cut of The Warriors or Last of the Mohicans. Because they don't actually care about the artist's vision, they're just a bunch of butthurt warsies who hate it when Lucas and their favorite toys are criticized.