As a Catholic I felt that it’s great, I don’t have to worry about any of that drek but I do, really, because it is no fun at all watching my Protestant compatriots getting sucked into these things. It affects the whole country adversely. And, we had problems of a similar sort in the 70s-90s with the “modernizing” of the Catholic Church. Thankfully that is going away bit by bit.
I think you can expect great things from the current pope. He almost makes me want to cross over.