Part of the problem is that the national church is controlled by iron-fisted radicals who took over while individuals in local churches weren't paying attention. They changed the rules so that they control the seminaries and the church property.
The radicals tried the same thing in the Catholic Church, but were defeated (at least so it appears at the moment) by the strong central organization and the Church's principled stand against all the foolishness proposed by the Anglicans (homosexuals and women's ordination are only the obvious issues. There are many more, including the divinity of Christ, the existence of sin, the Trinity, etc.)
The other part of the problem is the absence in the Episcopal/Anglican church of any kind of final ecclesiastical authority on faith and morals. You can believe pretty much whatever you want to believe, like the husband and wife Episcopal priests who were Wiccan priest and priestess on the side, or the idiot vicar who converted to Islam and didn't think that was inconsistent with her being an Episcopal priest (I think her jurisdictional bishop slapped her down, but only after the local bishop said he thought it was just fine and dandy.)
At some point you simply can't fight any more. For those of us who were "high" Episcopalians and had been telling ourselves all along that we were Catholics, just separated from Rome, there was one obvious refuge.
It has turned out to be a much better home than we expected or deserved.
Well said.
“..Part of the problem is that the national church is controlled by iron-fisted radicals who took over while individuals in local churches weren’t paying attention...”
Look up and obtain a copy of a book entitled “AA-1025”.
Radicals, indeed. And a bit more sinister.