Oftentimes they have a purpose. Have you watched the deleted-scenes footage of The Sixth Sense, with M. Night talking about why they were deleted?
Good scenes, every one of them, but if the director has a reason for cutting them (other than time/money/etc. as was the case for the original Star Wars, for example) then they should stay cut. In the case of Ep. I, things were cut because they didn't want a 3-hour movie going to theaters, so restoring the scenes was a good thing.
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