DominicCobb said:

^This

Serioudly, I've talked about this before. I don't think preserving the secret makes the films stronger at all. Quite the opposite.

A) Name one cool story point from the PT worth fretting over losing. If you are saying Palpatine being behind both armies I'm with you, other than that it's an unassembled bucket of bolts (and we know how good a well assembled bucket of bolts can be).

B) How many versions of the PT have you seen that do maintain the secrets of the OT? How many versions that don't actually work?

There's nothing to lose and everything to gain with the PT.

Make them Episodes One to Three and not the Prequels and they may just be salvaged.