I'm not even particularly anti-prequel but this is another variation on "you're watching it wrong. You are too dumb/nostalgic to get it." Which has been going around since 1999. (And is often used to justify the special edition changes as some kind of moral imperative that just had to happen). Seems like a long way of saying I-III did the same thing sequels do all the time. Mirroring, reveals, callbacks, reversals, subverting expectations. You could apply almost everything in that essay to ANOTHER 48HRS.