Ultimately, the purpose of any literature, religious or secular, should be that its contents should give messages for the welfare and wellbeing of all and at the same time, the narration should be pleasing and lucid.
More than the story, the purpose behind the story should be the concern.
That way Mahabharatham, in whatever form or version it has been has served its purpose quite well.
The questions as to whether Vyasa or whoever said or wrote it did so facing east or west, whether it was written with a tusk, whether a character had leprosy or another character was blind, whether five fellows had one wife and such trivialities are just trivialities.
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