Well, your question was about appearance of worship. Did you ask me if Mary is God or if a statue or an icon is God I would have answered, again without parsing words, with a simple No.
A Catholic worships by offering sacrifice. Not by kneeling, prostrating, standing on the head or hopping around on one leg. This is why we go to Mass. When you see us offering the consecrated host to Mary, by all means, knock us dead.
Did you ask me -> Had you asked me
Yuppper! By all means. The Orthodox too!
Last time I checked, we venerate the flag. I don't think anyone who kisses the flag or stands facing the flag when the naitonal anthem is played is "worshipping" the flag, or the nation, any more than hostages returning home kiss the ground are worshipping the earth.
Do people worship kings and queens when they kneel in front of them? Do we worship judges when we stand as they walk in and out? Do we worship our dead when we pay respetc to them at the gravesite and pray for their souls?
Anyone suggesting that Apostolic Church worships Mary speaks from ignorance as was the case with epiklesis, charging that the preist is an alchemist. Such obsurdity is possible only if one never bothers to study the issue but merely jumps to conclusions based on their perception. Imagine, the Church practiced 'alchemy' for 2,000 years and didn't know it!?