People do not look for easy lives, they look for meaningful lives that complete them. So that is one reason why Islam is attractive to some people. That is why Christianity once was attractive to some people.
The easier you make something the less people want it.
The problem is a loss of faith. The clergy lost faith in their own teachings. One cannot instill in others a faith one does not own. I recall a quote from Bertrand Russell, the mathematician and philosopher. He recalled that when he was in school he had been taught religion by agnostics. We are in much the same situation. Back in 1967, Fr. Charles Curran was teaching theology at Catholic university, and it became increasing obvious that he not longer thought of his faith as true, except in a mythical way. The bishops who were the trustees of at C.U. told him they would not renew his contract. He rebelled, refused to accept the decision, and a petition was got up that included the signatures of 500 theologians. The bishops backed down, he not only kept his job but got tenure. That summer the presidents of the Catholic colleges got together at Land of Lakes and in effect declared their independence of the episcopacy. Since that time, these schools have become less and less Catholic, and now have in effect stopped teaching the faith. And if that is the situation in the R.C. Church schools, imagine what has happened in the colleges associated with the mainline Protestant bodies.