That's what I fear about the Disney endorsed 4K restoration of Star Wars.

The blu-ray restorations of their animated features are unashamed revisions at the best of times with redrawn cels, flattened colour and removal of vibrant compositing details. All of these quirks and by-products of working in a wholly hand-crafted environment before the use of digital cel colouring and compositing really brought life to the animation. Gave it a shimmer and feel that we were watching 24 very unique frames per second, rather than a more perfected but paradoxically blander set of images.

It's like watching new Simpsons episodes. I believe the cels are still hand drawn but the colour, compositing and editing are all done digitally. So what you get is a strange 'flash animation' feel about it all which stands in complete contrast to the earlier seasons that have a very atmospheric and hand assembled quality to them that helps assist the storyline and ability for the audience to indulge in the characters and the show.

Now, to Star Wars. In my estimation, it's gonna be difficult for Disney to put out a very pure, unaltered restoration much like Mike's without having more than a few people within the company asking to recomposite effects shots, remove wires, fix the obvious visual and sound errors and grade the colour more in line with what a present-day audience is used to. In that effect, we may very well get another Special Edition in all but name. It'll be free of the 1997 and onwards CGI additions, but it will still be a revision and still not adhere to what audiences first saw in 1977.