With regards to how this affects the possibility of OUT on Blu-Ray, I'm hopeful we will at least get a seamless branched version offering a choice between the SE and something they call the original.

Based on how they treated the Lion King, their "original" would be full of re-rotoscoped lightsabres and the like, but no Jabba or shot from Greedo.

I think it will be close enough for a lot of people. I can imagine them releasing a version that, if George had released it as his SE in 1997, wouldn't have made enough people angry enough for sites like this to exist.