Why did Amazon Prime butcher Frank Capra's classic?

I am genuinely curious and rather depressed about this mess

To be honest with you, I am sick.

Just ordinary man cold sick. I didn’t get sick because of what the Amazon Prime lawyers did when they butchered, or ordered someone in the tech department to butcher, “It’s A Wonderful Life.” Why blame lawyers? Why not? If you know anything about the complicated copyright history of Frank Capra’s classic, it’s always possible that lawyers were up to no good.

So, what happened? Kind of imagine “Moby Dick” without the whale, “Hamlet” without the graveyard speech, “Psycho” without the shower scene or “Citizen Kane” without a certain sled.

Have any of you in Rational Sheep land heard about this cinema catastrophe? In my weakened condition, I’ll let The Daily Wire describe what happened:

The abridged film cuts out George’s terrifying journey through a world where he never existed. That frightening journey follows him after he is threatened with arrest by the bank’s greedy owner, Mr. Potter, played by Lionel Barrymore. Potter knows George doesn’t have the money for an imminent audit of the Bailey Building and Loan because George’s absent-minded uncle has lost $8,000, leaving it in Potter’s hands. When George goes to Potter for help, Potter mocks him, saying George is worth more dead than alive, prompting George’s descent into despair.

At the end of his rope, George is preparing to leap off a bridge when Clarence jumps in first, prompting George to dive into the water and save him. During their subsequent conversation, in the toll house by the bridge, as they are drying off, George tells Clarence, “Only one way you can help me. You don’t happen to have eight thousand bucks on you?”

Clarence is a classic Hollywood version of an angel, of course.

That is where Prime Video’s abridged version of the film breaks off and makes a hard cut. In the complete film, George follows by stating he’s “worth more dead than alive,” adding, “If it hadn’t been for me, everybody’d be a lot better off,” followed by, “I suppose it would have been better if I’d never been born at all,” Clarence then grants him his wish.

What follows is George’s harrowing odyssey through a world in which he had never been born, including scenes where George cannot find his car, which was left adrift in the snow. He discovers the town is now called Pottersville instead of Bedford Falls. He goes to a bar where no one knows him. He sees the druggist whom George had saved from disaster by recognizing a wrong prescription, but who now has spent 20 years in jail because George had not been there. George discovers he has no documents at all to identify himself with. He finds his Building and Loan business gone. The local cop, who is supposed to be a friend, does not recognize him. His mother denies his existence. He visits the grave of his brother who he had saved in his actual life. And his wife faints when he insists they are married.

Film lovers will recall that, when “It’s A Wonderful Life” was released in 1946, it was somewhat of a box-office flop — with many people saying that it was too dark.