Ahhhhh ....that would be because recent scandals involving the clergy and the ongoing problems with modernist dissenters and liturgical improvisors have nothing to do with "initiative", "creativity" nor "imagination". Quite the contrary. Many of the Church's problems in recent years have been caused by an excess of these things. The visitation is an attempt to address these problems.
These qualities might be essential in interior designers, landscape gardeners, architects and those in the food preparation business, but they are of minimal interest for Catholics and their clergy. The essential purpose of the seminary is to produce holy, faithful priests. Not artists. How on earth would a Cure of Ars or a Padre Pio have graduated from a McBrien seminary?
McBrien is, as always, not even close to being sensible. He is a true blight on the Catholic landscape. Worse than an idiot. A mischievous deconstructor of Catholicism.
When I saw Notre Dame I thought, "Ah, an outraged, likely aging liberal spirit-of-Vatican-II-but-not-truly-conforming-to-Vatican-II tenured theological neofascist academic is venting his frustration with true reform" (I know it's hyperbole, but the coffee is having an effect). I doubted my prejudice, but your post validated my unfounded conclusion. Just checking: is McBrien truly a fashionable Catholic, just as you assert?
Regards.