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If one takes a look at recoding it, he/she will come up against the same problem that user_none did. There are limitations to the underlying qt webkit software that the editor uses. The use of declarations at the top of one kind or another causes yet different problems. To keep spaces in book view from disappearing on saving as html has posed way more effort than anyone would expect. Also support for languages other than English has posed subtle and not so subtle problems.
These issues were ignored or swept under the rug by previous editions and epubs with errors or problems were changed without notice and in the beginning that is what we all wanted. As Sigil got improved, more attention was paid to these issues and also to maintaining valid html. This focus causes Sigil to modestly change some things so that it can do something rather than spend all day maintaining someone's definitely funky way of constructing an epub. It is already at a million lines and it was reasonably decided that it wasn't productive to do so.
As was said by others, if a user wants their epub unchanged, get a zip program, unzip the epub and make the changes in any text editor and rezip it again. It will be guaranteed to be unchanged. BUT it will NOT be guaranteed to be valid, nor can you can it be expected to be at least readable in most readers nearly all the time.
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