"Well, nothing earth-shaking. Everything remains pretty much the same; a few details here and there change, but nothing else."
Given what the Eastern Rite hierarchs had to say, this is a bit disappointing, but perhaps not surprising. Its too bad; the Latin bishops should have listened to their Eastern brothers more.
I have to agree. Not much changes. The one interesting detail that I saw was proposition 13, re-consideration of the sequence of Baptism, Chrismation and first communion for children to possibly bring it into conformity with the eastern Catholic norm.
I didn't have much of a problem in that what the eastern Catholic hierarchs had to say didn't make it to the final documents. It didn't need to, and I wouldn't expect it to. The eastern hierarchs delivered The Message, and the western hierarchs can either listen or not. FWIW I think that the person whose vote really counts, that being Pope Benedict, was probably listening.
It would be naive to expect what is predominantly a synod of the western church to generate a document that would, in effect, call the western church on the carpet.