Death Star Laser stock footage?

This bothered me since I was a small child, but isn't it absolutely crazy that they used the exact same footage of the death star technicians from the first movie again? I think they flipped a shot or colored it slightly differently but it's the exact same shot. That seems insanely cheap for such a big-budget movie, and for such iconic shots.

Return of the Jedi was my favorite movie as a kid (and the first or second movie I saw in the theater too) but as an adult it really just doesn't work for a litany of reasons. For one, it's absurd how all the main characters are thrown together for their mission to Endor. Why would you put a supposedly very important PRINCESS intentionally on a high risk mission to some enemy moon, along with two bumbling droids ill-suited to the forest environment? Why was Luke's plan to rescue Han at the beginning so convoluted and relied upon so many contrivances to pull off? It also bothers me how much Luke's character changed in this movie now that he's a powerful Jedi. He essentially has little arc anymore now and never comes off as vulnerable until the final 20 minutes of movie. Lastly, they really took away the menace of Darth Vader with the dumb dialog scene when he captures Luke, making him whine like he's a victim of circumstance rather than be the badass that he was in the first two movies.

Still I'll take it over the prequels and Disney movies, but just by a small margin. It boasts some of the best special effects in the history of film as that ending space battle is just legendary. It's just a shame that they cheaped out in a few places and got lazy with the script and characters.