I think the fact that the Blu-ray version is non-CGI has to do with the fact that 1) after years had passed, it was assumed that customers know what they are getting into, and 2) over the first decade of the new millennium, studios began supplying "non-rated" cuts to the home rental market – with raunchy scenes beyond the R-rated cut – and it was not met with much outrage from the morals police.
> I wish we could get, in the US, what are certainly the best versions of Kubrick's work.
> I wish we could get, in the US, what are certainly the best versions of Kubrick's work.
You can always torrent a European Blu-ray.