Kinda missing the point there. Changing character arcs is bad. Even changing out old FX shots for entirely new ones is revisionist at best (though they don't personally offend me). Fixing simple rotoscoping errors is something totally different. Had Lucas released the O-OT with stuff like the mattes and sabers fixed but nothing else, there might *might* be a hundred people on earth who would get worked up over it. Most of them are on this forum.
Compared to the thousands upon thousands who care about the O-OT not being released in any form (cleaned up or grainy), there is clearly a threshold. Lucas is so far on one side of it, he can't see it. Same goes for certain others on the opposite side of the issue.
I haven't heard my earlier points addressed. What about that "Episode IV: A New Hope" being tacked on to the title crawl? That's not clearly causing certain forum member's panties to get in a twist. But it is a change from the original release of Star Wars. Everybody has their own threshold, and the vast majority seem to want a restoration of the version seen on the DE or Faces laserdiscs. If five frames of saber FX are corrected, what is the BFD? Don't like it? Follow the guides for captures being offered on this site (and others) and do your own f'ing captures. That's what's great about partcipants like MBJ and Zion and MVerta. They're doing this restoration out of a labor of love and are sharing most (if not all) of their secrets openly to provide a map for others to follow suit.
Remember, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.