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Of course if you don't watch discs anymore and are happy with your extended 4K digital versions, then there's no reason for you to buy this set!
As for Indiana Jones, they did some minor VFX cleanup on the recent 4K release, mostly erasing things like matte lines and small errors (such as the reflection in the snake pit). But nothing on the level of Lucas and his Star Wars changes.
The recent 4K Indiana Jones set has changes like this, where they cleaned up compositing and fixed some technical issues, but no changes that really affect the story at all. Even a limited cleanup like that is pretty rare. But I can think of almost no examples outside of Star Wars where new CGI has been added/modified for a re-release, and keep in mind Star Wars got more theater revenue alongside it. There's the original Star Trek series ... I'm sure there are others but nothing else comes to mind.
Assuming Peter Jackson even wanted to update the VFX (and he doesn't seem to be the kind of person to stew over the imperfections in his creations like Lucas does), I'm sure the numbers just wouldn't add up to pay CGI artists huge money to improve the VFX for a 4K release on a dying format. Unfortunately.