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Which means the question in the OP should be, "The true presence of Christ in the Eucharist is central to our Catholic faith, and many converts say it was essential to their conversion. If this is so, why is the true presence not mentioned at all as being so in the life of the NT church?" Rather than the central focus being upon a ritual offering of a wafer of bread and sip of wine as a salvific food and sacrifice for sin by a distinctive sacerdotal priesthood, we simply have breaking bread from house to house, with gladness and singleness of heart. (Acts 2:46) And in the only manifest description of the Lord's supper it is focus on the church as the body of Christ, which is what is exhorted into being the closest thing to Christ in the flesh. (Eph. 4:7-13)

There is never a word about desecrating the Eucharist, nor any theological teaching on its nature, nor exhortations to partake of it in order to obtain spiritual life, but there is clear condemnation for persecuting the church, (Acts 9:4; 1Co. 15:9) and solemn warning against defiling it, (1Co. 3:17) which Christ purchased (not fed) with His own sinless shed blood. (Acts 20:28)

And instead of NT pastors being distinctively called "priests," and exhorted to perform the Eucharistic Catholic ritual, and thereby atone for sins and feed the flock, NT pastors are nowhere called "priests" in the life of the NT church, or seen or exhorted to perform the Eucharistic Catholic ritual, but they are charged with, and seen and exhorted to feed the flock by preaching the word, which is "milk," "meat" and what nourishes and build up souls, as shown.