Yeah, a nice 1080p/2K restoration based on a print would certainly be great, because, like CatBus said, it may occasionally have some extra detail that was destroyed by DVNR and compression on the BD and certainly wouldn’t have all the warping and frozen grain and all the other crap caused by the DNR in the 2004 masters, not to mention the destroyed colors, which can only be revived to a certain degree from the BDs. But a 4K version of the same restoration would offer little to no upgrade - again, it makes a lot of sense to do the scanning in 4K, because then less detail is lost through inevitable manipulation of the image but for the final product, 4K would be redundant. I guess a restoration made from an IP could have some merit as that is only one generation removed from the ON but from a print, not so much, unless, like Mike Verta, you’re actually recruiting detail from multiple prints for each frame.

Either way, Despecialized in 4K would only make sense if there was a new 4K restoration from the negative, that would be the SE - but replacing shots in such a restoration with 4K scans of prints would be a similar situation to what we had replacing shots in the BD version with GOUT, although the difference would probably be less noticeable.