It's just another piece of evidence that the Special Edition project started as a 1:1 recomposition of the original elements, that somehow got expanded to a "fix some mistakes while creating new ones".
Here's another part where they kept an error because it existed in the original:
Post #585683
- Author
- doubleofive
- Parent topic
- Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
- Link to post in topic
- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/585683/action/topic#585683
- Date created
- 16-Jul-2012, 2:38 PM