Ways to bring the old fans back in ( who were gonna show up and watch all three of the sequel trilogy films regardless) and introduce the new characters without doing a point for point redo of ANH. A new plot shouldn't have been that hard to come up with

Also episodes 4-6 are not loss footage that no one has access too. But even if u hadn't made the effort to see them beforehand, the filmmakers could have still told another story

So in conclusion u sound fucking ridiculous