yeah but remember Oshii pulled Lucas with Ghost in the Shell 2.0 and that too was passed off as a "restoration".
The difference being that the older version is on blu ray but looks upscaled and not taken from the pristine master negative.
How about the remaster of Evangelion tv for DVD They added new scenes and dropped the old stereo audio in both the japan and English releases in favor of a newly recorded 5.1.
And discontinued the old cuts audio. So those sets get collectors prices.
And also with Robotech although that was a hacked version of Macross they still replaced sound effects and music and a bad new 5.1 mix when the old one is on the out of print laserdiscs and dvd.
There is also the mobile suit gundam trilogy which usa release did not include the original mixes and only the incorrect new 5.1 mix, even with the multiple reissues. They left off the original japan monaural tracks and even the english dub, bogus release even if the dub stunk.
Plus Rhino home video also released transfromers with a bad 5.1 mix back in the day. The current studio took the monaural and made a fake stereo mix out of it, still better than the 5.1 even if i would have preferred the mono untouched.