I’m not gonna argue there weren’t some overreaches in the special editions. The creature stuff was probably too much though I did love the starfighter shots.

This though I’m pretty much fine with these days. The way I see it Vader almost never saw himself without the mask since he needed it to live outside that special chamber that had no mirrors in it I could see. So once he came back to the light and became a force ghost why wouldn’t he project the image of himself as Anakin that he knew best? Obi-wan and Yoda had many years to get used to their old bodies and so naturally would project them, but Anakin essentially stopped existing when he woke up in the suit, so of course he goes back to that when he gets rid of it.

Just be thankful they didn’t have deepfake technology back then or they absolutely would have swapped his face into the mask removal scene.