It's too bad the lpp print isn't available yet. I wonder, how do the known theatrical bootlegs treat those shots? I'm rather skeptical of this simply because we've never noticed it before, as far as I know, anyways. Perhaps it was just on ib prints?
If it was on all/most prints I would vote to keep it, but if it was both ways theatrically, I think there's no reason to choose the worse looking theatrical version.