That saber is just an example of Hot Toys careless attitude toward detail - many times they seem to prefer to do their own thing rather than mimic the source. They make some great products, but they gloss over a lot. Their ESB Graflex for their Bespin Luke isn't very good and they simply re-used it for their ANH figure.
Inigou (who's here in the forum) made a faithful V2 in 1/6 which was available at the same time as his ROTJ Luke head sculpt.
While I don't disagree with you with regards to the laziness of the ANH and TFA sabers, I think they tried to do a decent job on the saber here...
There are three sabers depicted in the film and it looks like HT incorporated elements of all three in their hilt - cone knob, mystery chunk - v2; Graflex clamp - v2/v3; control box, emitter and rings - hero
At least what it looks like to me with the limited pictures we've seen so far...
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