I don’t understand the obsession with making the prequels “tolerable”. Try to make them something you can enjoy or just don’t edit them at all. If you just hate everything about them and editing is just a matter of pruning out the most objectionable things to create something overall only tolerable, then I don’t understand the point of the exercise. Personally, I think there’s something that works about these films underneath a lot of stuff that doesn’t work, or else i wouldn’t bother investing in the prequel fanedit community.
The people that make the edits probably don’t feel that they are merely ‘tolerable’.