SilverWook said:

Because pricey box sets never ever go on sale these days, or get broken up and sold on Ebay.

Seriously, after waiting all this time, if we finally get what we've been waiting for, we're going to complain it's too expensive to buy?

Assuming Disney actually puts a lot of time and effort into an OUT restoration, I doubt they'll only include it in some 200 dollar set, because VERY few people would buy that, and anyone who wants the originals but isn't really heartbroken about settling for the SE's won't buy it either. The only versions they'll release will be the current versions alongside the unaltered versions if this happens. Also, they're never going to remaster the 1997 editions. I'm not saying that maliciously, I'm just saying it's probably naive to think that the 97 version will ever see a release again. If it is released it'll be in a Blade Runner type set (same with '04), but again, if they do release a comprehensive set of all versions, they'll make the original version available in another release, because that's the only "alternate" version that there's a market for.