Star Wars' creation and original release defined a generation, redefined movie making, redefined the movie going experience, redefined the place Science Fiction had in all of the above (Ridley Scott's Alien did as well). The Original Star Wars Trilogy in itself was, and still is to those of us who got to experience it and for those of us who have been introduced to it afterward, a historical landmark of genuine proportion.
The actors that gave the story a face, Han shooting first, color timing, musical score, and ground breaking effects process's created specifically for telling this story are to this day still talked about even by other directors who saw the same thing we did. It moved the Earth.
To make it disappear just because one can.....is like ruining the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" or the "Loch Ness Monster"..... it ruins the mystery.