Yet with little fanfare plenty of movies manage to clean the scratches and get the color right so it's not a big deal until we have these weird guys and their personalities entering the mix. Gordon Willis says this (about the blu of All the President's Men:

it's all fucked up...all the medium tones [are wrong] and contrast is way higher than it oughta be....it's overloaded. They don't get it. They get on those fucking dials...it's a disease. Their idea for a Bluray is to make it for guys who are watching football.""And what are they gonna say?," he said. "We're sorry and we'll do it all over again? You call these guys, it's like talking to a head on a stick."

So basically all it takes for a hugely respected cinematographer to get hosed is one or 2 of those tech support guys who get a little taste of authority.