To read the actual word of God is a tremendous privilege? Why would you not take advantage of that? It’s feeding for the soul. There is enough there that you don’t have to ask another for guidance. Psalms are easily understood for example and truly.strengthening.
I think the religion forum wars here have a few Catholics gun shy of admitting reading a bound Bible or on line Bible as too “Protestant.”
Yes they get scriptural extracts from mass readings, weddings and funerals. Yet that lacks depth as the extracts limit full context and stifle expository examination of comparable passages throughout the OT and NT.
For example, how can one get the fullness of Christ’s teaching of abiding in Him as He used the example of the vine and branches? To understand His teaching we need to know what the original audience knew. Which means the OT vine/branches passages. Then harmonize that with the apostles use of vines and branches. You can’t do such examination using a missilette extract. Sure it’s great devotion material but falls short of Paul’s exhorting of Timothy in 2 Tim 3.