If the Special Editions are new drafts of Lucas' masterpiece, let's compare this to a book then.

In 1977, Lucas released a book. It was short and sweet, and people loved it. Twenty years later, he republishes it with some new chapters and some corrections here and there. The next time it comes up for republishing, he does the same thing, but this time something happened and now all of the text is at an angle. You can still read it, but its a pain. His readers point this out over and over again for 7 years, and that all they really want is the original novel. He ignores all these requests, only straightens the text in the parts people used as examples of crooked text, and adds more typo corrections. Instead of fixing the major problem, that people can't read it correctly, he's fixing typos that may or may not have been there from the beginning.

I do think its funny that they only fixed the EXACT SHOTS we used as complaints about the 2004. Do they not see that entire scenes need to be fixed, not just particular shots?