It is worth noting that this could ultimately be for the best, if not just because the Special Editions of the Original Trilogy are considered just a tad controversial.
There certainly are things to appreciate in the edits, and the whole conversation would be much less heated if the theatrically released versions of the movies were made available, but there are also elements that many fans truly hate – such as Greedo taking a shot at Han Solo before being killed in A New Hope, and the horrible ear cancer that is played as music in the Jabba’s Palace sequence of Return of the Jedi.