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"About 80% of the Scripture is very clear to a casual reader. But not 100%. In order to read the scripture and profit from it spiritually one has to absorb the Holy Tradition at the same time."

Although I would agree with the first part of your statement the second part strikes me as the road to perdition.

The path to reading and understanding SCRIPTURE is being indwelled with the HOLY SPIRIT, praying on them, meditating about them, fellowshiping with other believers. If you rely on "Holy Tradition" you allow unverified, non-SCRIPTURAL sources, with their own personal agendas, to "shade" the truth. Holy Tradition has brought about false doctrine in numerous areas; indulgences, praying to the dead to amplify pray requests, Mary never dying, just to name a few.

The Holy Spirit was given the Apostles only (John 15:26-27, John 20:21, Acts 2), and they alone were commissioned to preach the gospel to the world (Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 21). Well, they still do, and we still listen. That gospel is the Holy Tradition. The written scripture is a part of it. It is special, as we know, as it is "profitable for reproof" but it is an organic part of a whole.

The scripture expressly warns against private interpretation of the scripture, see 2 Peter 1.