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Why would that be expected? That would be a vast and herculean effort. Finding, recovering, transferring, and then re-rendering 30-year-old CGI renders? Not to mention, they would have to re-scan other pieces of film missing from the theatrical cuts. To give a little away (and I won’t go any further), the '97 film out inserts were not scanned for this. In fact, if the documents are to be believed (which, btw, is not a 100% sure thing), then those pieces of film are no longer part of the negatives…
The versions would have noticeably different color grading and resolution.
I’m pretty sure most of the CGI isn’t from 1997, they re-did it several times, in 2004 for the DVDs, then again in 2011 for the Blu-Ray, and only a few minor tweaks in 2019 for the 4K version.
But yes, I agree with the reasoning that “Those are George’s versions and we aren’t going to touch them.”
Kathleen Kennedy has pretty much said that in interviews also.