I understand and sympathize with what you’re saying. Having said that, LOE would be a totally different edit if I hadn’t wanted to use the ending with Padme living. If I were to leave it the same as it is, and only reinstate the original ending (past, say, the point at which the duel is over), the editing choices wouldn’t stack on each other toward that goal. It would still be coherent, but the reasons for how it got there wouldn’t be valid anymore. Luckily, L8wrtr’s and others’ edits of Episode III can be plugged in instead. Putting out an “alternate/original ending” version would be problematic for those reasons, and others such as the necklace seen in the funeral scene being missing from my edit of Episode I.
All things considered, I’d sooner watch an edit of Episode III that never sought to remove Padme’s death in the first place than try to contrive mine into that mold. L8wrtr’s edits are stellar in their own right, and there’s no continuity reasons that would prohibit one from subbing in his Ep3 for mine. I don’t mean that flippantly! His edit did not suffer from having Padme die because he never sought to change that part in the first place, whereas my edit was done from the ground up with that point of climax in mind.