Pretty sure that's covered by "Disney has proven uniquely untrustworthy when it comes this kind of thing so all of the "you can still buy the original" horseshit can get fucked." While I don't personally give a shit about Lilo + Stitch, the fact that the ending has been altered to protect Disney's corporate image and they pretend the original doesn't exist is EXACTLY why people should be concerned. Disney isn't an artist so the Da Vinci quote is irrelevant.
Do we know it's a fact it was to protect corporate image? Maybe they just didn't want to be dicks? Maybe the author was personally affected? Maybe the scene was slipped in by the same rogue artist that drew a dick tower in the cover art of The Little Mermaid? That's a classic.
We can only complain about the edits we know of even though thousands happen before they ever reach our senses. If any of this were to protect their image I believe we have this thread to see their decisions have the opposite result, and so we should all be happy about that?
To the point someone made of the clothes dryer, Disney might not worry at all about getting sued. We're all millionaires from suing video game companies, right? Plus, that would be a products liability issue I think. . . and I just don't think Disney is in it to protect Maytag.
Disney isn't an artist, so we can stop complaining because there's no longer an argument. It's not art - except for, again, the penis castle. Can't stress that enough. The point, though, would be, generally speaking, would any of these edits would be okay if they were done by an artist, then? Are we complaining about Disney or are we complaining about censoring art?
Let's take a reality check to recognize how much shit is censored to begin with. People can cherry-pick low hanging fruit of cultures that endure severe censorship, but a lot of other cultures can look at American television and newspapers and point to how it's censored - I don't mean by who owns the publisher but simply what is culturally acceptable. We're probably more concerned with other people's artistic censorship than our own personal expression.
Anyway, censorship sucks, but sometimes we need to pause a beat to identify the difference between what is censorship and what is editing. Luckily, with any of these examples, people can take their money elsewhere no matter the reason.