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The best you can say of the 1928 BCP is that it is a few remnants of the Divine Liturgy of St. James of Jerusalem the Brother of the Lord as taken to Rome by St. Peter, as revamped and restructured (but with a heresy here and there thrown in) by Alcuin of York, as further refined by the Norman Bishop of Sarum in 1066, as redesigned and added to by the heretical Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, as improved upon in 1662 by the Restoration crowd, with its Orthodox paschalion destroyed in 1552 by King George II, as revised in 1789 and then again in 1928.

Would you not rather have the original, or something very close to the original?

Yes, that would be great... I would love to see something like that come to fruition! I attended our Provincial Synod in 2003, and the subject of establishing a BCP along its original format was brought up as a discussion. I was only able to follow bits and pieces of it, as I was assisting a booth in its sales and I was only there as an observer, rather than a delegate. I may be going out on a limb here, but I think the 1928 version was settled upon in the Affirmation of St. Louis in 1977 because a majority of the members were most familiar with that. As the ACC goes on, I think I might end up hearing more about going to the source, as it were.

Of course, speaking as a child of Vatican II, the 1928 BCP is already rich and wonderful for me.