I am a bit put off by the eternal issue of old films "finally restored!!" - This was done with King Kong, Greed, Intolerance, etc. etc. At some point, I would genuinely love it if someone would finally come up with all the "missing" scenes to these films - it seems a tad contrived . . .
I understand what you're saying, but in this case the entire film was, literally, "missing." They only very recently discovered a single intact version in Argentina. And we're not talking about a "couple scenes" here, the majority of the story was completely cut. (Not a unique prospect at the time.) It's not a case of adding scenes to cash in, the full movie was not believed to exist ANYWHERE until they found this 16mm copy in 2005.