The Golden Idol said:
After some thinking, I'm also iffy on changing something so iconic, the farthest I'd go is omitting the numeral, but I really don't think the title should be excluded, nor do I think the iconic gold/yellow text should be changed to any other color.
I'm not for changing the beginning titles at all. For a series of edits that seems to be about capturing the original spirit so well, changing the opening titles seems to go against that completely.
Still... I do like the idea of removing the episode numbers. Why should there only be three films before A New Hope? Without the numbers the series is free to expand infinitely forward or backward.