Maxim, let me try to clarify. People consider the GOUT a "horrible RELEASE". A "release" is a particular packaging of a movie that is officially produced and sold. Releases are by their very definition embedded in the context of their release date. Given the release date of the GOUT, "horrible" is an apt description because it doesn't meet baseline standards of releases at that time. You're right it isn't a "horrible movie" or "horrible video quality", but it is a "horrible release". That phrase requires no additional clarification of context.

A fan-edit is a completely different sort of "release" and would understandably not be held to the same standards.

I don't necessarily begrudge Lucasfilm using the laserdisc master for what he considered a "bonus disc". I don't even begrudge the excessive DVNR, etc. It's the non-anamorphic format that makes it a "horrible" release. In 2006, the choice between anamorphic and non-anamorphic is akin to simply checking a box in the encoder software. The fact that it isn't anamorphic was clearly to intentionally lower the quality. With no extra effort whatsoever, Lucas could have improved the video quality dramatically just by filling in the check box as was the case for virtually every other film release of that time. It is unfathomable that a producer would intentionally lower the quality of a release so dramatically, to sub-baseline levels, and that's primarily for me what makes the GOUT rise(!) to the level of "horrible release".