Fang Zei said:

To a pretty big chunk of the audience, the ones above a certain age anyway, there's the true OOT and then there's the SE.

I think there's also a lot of people who have never seen the OOT who would love to watch it. Star Wars fans are pretty notorious for buying the same movies over and over again, and if LFL released the OOT then there'd actually be a reason to re-buy. Someone who says that there's no market for the OOT just doesn't want to get their hopes up (which I can understand after all these years). Also, whenever George said it was going to cost too much or it would be too difficult, he was just lying because he was tired of people being angry at the SE. I'd go so far as to say that a proper restoration and well advertised release of the OUT could be one of the best-selling Star Wars home video releases ever