To me, yes, absolutely.

I am less versed in technical aspects and simply want the story I know. If matte lines are removed, I won't notice or care.

I didn't mind removing Shaw's eyebrows or that they now "fixed" the Wampa arm. Such changes merely fix fairly obvious errors - they don't try to revise what actually happened. There's arguably a slippery slope here, but I could accept a great number of minor alterations.

Of course there would be no reason for GL to not preserve to the original originals. I mean, it seems like something any rational person would want to do with his creations...