What you are seeing, I think, has a positive side: the death throes of ultramontanism.
Since the 1800s there has been this creeping idea—pious yes, but also dangerous—that the Pope is an autocrat who can do pretty much what he likes. So St. Pius X gutted the Roman Breviary. Pius XII reorganized Holy Week, and of course Paul VI handed the entire Mass of the Ages and calendar to a panel of experts to be cut apart and pasted back together.
We the laity have become passive, submissive, and too eager to simply accept the diktats of our ecclesiastical superiors even when they are supremely ill-advised and even detrimental to the faith. When the Novus Ordo was promulgated we should have told Paul VI to stuff it.
Let our priests be wary. Let their agitation turn to steely resolve to not see the faith watered down by any hierarch, be he the Pope himself.
Amen.