I like the fact that it looks like this movie is taking a balanced look at the Star Wars fandom and not just picking one side, because the great fan divide is a very complex issue. I myself often get pushed into the "Lucas supporter" category, but my own feelings about the franchise are a lot more complex what that that label represents. Pretty much everyone despises Jar Jar Binks and agrees that Episode I is the weakest movie in the entire saga, and I agree with the notion that if Lucas wants to fix something, it should be the prequels and not the OT (not to mention that the OOT still needs a high quality restoration, which Lucas seems to have no interest in doing at present).
I was made a fan of Star Wars through the VHS cassettes, and thus I suppose my view on things is a bit different from older fans who actually saw the movies in theaters the first time. The Star Wars I grew up with looked like crap, but I liked the movie in spite of this, not because of this. When the Special Editions came out, I know a lot of people berate the changes Lucas made, and I agree that Greedo has no business shooting first and that the additional "George Lucas humor" was out of place. But still, that was the first time I saw Star Wars in a theater, and it left a huge impact on me. I went from watching a fuzzy VHS tape on a 20 inch screen to seeing the movie in a theater with incredible new special effects, looking like it was shot yesterday. As an 11 year old kid, it blew my mind.
Even Jabba the Hutt, which looking back I do not think belongs in my regular viewing copy of the film was a great treat, because the scene was one that me and my friends had always been obsessed about seeing, not unlike how King Kong fans venerate the lost Spider Pit scene. Even if it doesn't mesh well with the film and doesn't contribute to the plot the way the Biggs scene did (the latter of which I feel was a worthy addition), it was still a great extra for people who had seen the movie a million times before and were curious about what got cut from the film, as was the case with me and my friends.
Having said all that, I think that there should be a co-existence between the special editions and the original, unaltered trilogy. I'm hopeful that at the very least George Lucas's next run of special editions will provide some good fodder for fan edits with their new effects shots and HD transfers. With OOT, I think needs to be preserved since it's an important part of film history, and because there are many people who refuse to watch any other version, and shouldn't they be able to watch the film the way they prefer, warts and all?
Obviously, I could go on for pages and pages about what things I do and don't like about how Lucas has treated Star Wars, but at the end of the day I am a Star Wars fan. Like most of my generation I prefer the original trilogy, but I am not conceptually opposed to the Special editions, and I also get a lot of enjoyment from the prequels even though there's a lot of frustration that must be dug through to find it. I suppose that's how I could describe Lucas-- he frustrates me at times, but at the end of the day he's the guy who makes Star Wars, and the reason he keeps making more is because we keep asking for it.