I don't know the purpose of these, but this is the first time that I noticed anyone mention them so thought that I would chime in since one of them was actually useful to me -- it was an accident on my part so I don't know if that is why they are there.
To make a long story not really shorter, I was able to run the original release by making the cfg changes for window plus the launcher fix. With 2.01 I started with the same resolution issue that the cfg changes fixed in the previous version, but they did not help with the new one. I went to the EBII folder to try and see what else I could do and inadvertently ran the mysterious "launch-cine-edit" batchfile and lo-and-behold EBII launched looking great.
Not being one to look a gift-horse in the mouth, I checked my configuration options and exited and used the same .BAT to run again. All looked fine so I added CAI v3 & the BAI and restarted with a new Saba H/H campaign and all has been pretty good through season 40.
YMMV.