Yeah, sure, whatever you say; but it's functionally identical no matter which items they select or how loudly they whine.
If they had any real faith they'd have stayed put and fought to set things they think are wrong back to what they should be. It's always easier to do the Luther routine and pretend the Church is too far gone than it is to stay and fight. Leaving also gets you name up in lights which I can assure you is a very, very, important thing to several of the SSPX folks.
The more important they claim their reason for leaving was, it was twice that important for them to stay and fight. They didn't. They're Protestant in all but name and fading fast.
People who saw the Corps going to hell in the seventies didn't slink away and write articles, they stayed in the Corps and fought to put it back on the right track. That's my benchmark, and if people can eat the piles of dirt it takes to stay within the military establishment and try to change things in this country people who believe The One True Church is in jeopardy could have stayed and fought, too.
The only thing they refused to do is remain faithful, just like the people who defy Church teaching on contraception or anything else.
They did stay put. It was Rome who declared they were excommunicated.
I’m sure straight Marines have stayed put (and suffered), even though Washington has declared queers are equals to them.
Straight military chaplains currently getting booted out or disciplined by the Corp for criticizing the sodomite lifestyle is not much different than what Rome has done to the SSPX.