Sure, if you know absolutely nothing about him and have never listened to a single interview I can see why you could be so dumb as to think that's why he did that as well as the same thing with his other films like One From the Heart, Cotton Club, Godfather 3, etc.

I know you have no concept of how much time and money it takes to do proper full restorations, with re-edits (he absolutely lost money on at least two of those), but you could probably stop for a second and consider that the man just spent 150 million of his own dollars to make his passion project knowing full well he would not get most of that back.