Maybe it's different for different people. Before it dawned on everyone that the SEs were going to be Lucas's favoured versions they were still objected to purely on the grounds of "meddling". So I don't think it's just the subsequent "deletion" of the original versions, it's people objecting to the simple act of changing things. Somehow fan editors seem to be immune to that sort of criticism. Don't think for a sec that I'm approving of Lucas's tinkering, but I think in general there's a lack of balance here.