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Should Original Content be Edited or Changed to Fit New Ideas or Norms?

As I was reading some of the threads from “George Lucas: Unreliable Narrator & Time-Traveling Revisionist”, I was interested in a quote taken from an interview with George Lucas in the Rolling Stones magazine in 1977.  Lucas said, “I realized a more destructive element in the culture would be a whole generation of kids growing up without that thing, because I had also done a study on, I don’t know what you call it, I call it the fairytale or the myth.  It is a children’s story in history and you go back to the Odyssey or the stories that are told for the kid in all of us.” After reading this quote, it almost seems as if Lucas chose to re-edit and modify Star Wars as an attempt to keep it up to date with each new generation as he was targeting the movie at children it would make sense that he would re-edit it to modernize it.  What does that mean for the people who grew up with the original Star Wars in the 1970s as it was a part of the society that they were growing up in at the time?  It does not seem productive to have the original protected by copyright laws, all versions of the film should be enjoyed.  The Harry Potter franchise would be the most relevant to me in terms of pop culture I consumed as a child and teenager. What Lucas did with his films(s) would give a similar reaction if JK Rowling re-edited the Harry Potter series to be more appealing to future generations.