Why no American Linear Version In Criterion 'Complete'?

This kind of a PS to a recent comment I made.

ps--It is now two days since I watched Criterion's Comprehensive and
Corinth Versions of Arkadin. As almost an afterthought, I decided to
re-watch my cheap Laserlight public domain disc, which contains a beat
up print of what I think is the original American release--one
dismissed by the scholors because it doesn't have the Zouk-Van Stratten
flashback structure, and tells the story in a linear fashion (which by
the way, is the way the original screenplay and the concurrently
written novel were structured as well). Well, I found that some of my
questions about the original Zouk-Van Stratten dialog was answered. In
the linear American version, all their scenes do come at the end, with
no flashbacks of Van Stratten telling the story. BUT also, all of Van
Stratten's dialog matches his lip movements! AND what he says makes
sense within the story--not really the case in the preferred versions,
where he first tells Zouk they have to hurry or be killed, and then
proceeds to waste time telling a long story. And this version he makes
it specifically clear what Van Stratten means when he says he has to
save Zouk in order to save his own life. "Arkadin won't kill me as long
as the last remaining gang member is alive> he says (or something like
that).

So I think it is clear that the American version has its merits. Just
because Welles decided to turn the film into a flashback fest after it
was already too late to do it properly, doesn't mean that is the best
way. The flashbacks are cool once you get into them, but the opening is
painfully awkward and makes little sense. In any case, I think
Criterion should have included another disc with a cleaned up copy of
this American version as well. I think it's a valuable a part of the
Arkadin cannon as any of the other versions.