TV's Frink said:

The thread is for discussion of adywan's Purist vs. Revisted edits, and thoughts about a hybrid version of the two. It's not about the relative merits of fanedits.

But if you did want to discuss the relative merits of fan edits vs. preservations, wouldn't Adywan's two versions - one considered by many to be the best preservation, and the other considered by many to be the best fan edit, and both being built from basically the same elements, be an ideal centerpiece for such a discussion? After all, the title of the thread is asking for users to contrast a fan edit and a preservation! Crygor's response was a pretty direct answer to the question. His justification for his answer was just different than everyone else's, so it seemed out of place. But upon reflection, it doesn't seem off-topic to me.

Also, you can empathize with Crygor64's dislike of fanedits, but to claim that faneditors are worse than Lucas is ludicrous.

I certainly never said anything of the sort, and I think that if Crygor did it was hyperbole.

By the way, I love Adywan's work... so it feels strange to defend Crygor's posts.