Try asking countless of parishoners here-JPII only put out Redemtionis because of just that fact.
Do you for one minute actually think the Bishops actually give a hoot what Rome says? Like I think you said, the V2 documents have many requirements that to this day are not being followed.
And when you are on that long line with all of those kiddies in their shorts and flip flops, woman with halter tops and men in T-shirts waiting for the "Body of Christ", you are going to stop and hold up the line and kneel? You are not being Modern! Hey, no one genuflects no more either, tabernacle? so what. The Novus Ordo have that nice little table in the middle and no one dares genuflect anymore, or a few die hards. Our Bishop does a little "nod" to the laity when he passes by the tabernacle, he is worshipping the LAITY! Not Christ!
The New Mass is self indulgent worship of oneself, and casts doubt on the real presence and has resulted in a loss of the faith for millions never to be regained. It is actually worse than the reformation as this time the split from past church teachings came from within and not from without, like the Aryan Heresy of old
Here in L.A. Modman Mahony started demanding a few years ago that for communion, the people in the BACK of the church have to come forward first, and then the traffic was to proceed forward row by row until the front pews are last. He acutally quoted Scripture as a basis for this laughable, ridiculous innovation, saying that the last shall be first and the first shall be last, and that all the while communion was distributed, we should all think about that passage. I am surprised to hear that some parishes actually embraced this ruse and are continuing to this day in this additional example of diabolical disorientation in practice.
It wasn't any document from VatII that he used for this, either. The list of changes that are now in practice under the pretense of "the Council" (inferring that there are no other councils) or the [unclean] spirit of Vatican II is an immense list, far more extensive than "the Council" ever envisioned, it seems to me.