I guess you have more facts than I do from this reading.
Did Gore ever plan to be a priest when in Seminary? I think not.
I was high church and am over 70...thought it was still the same.
Can “just anyone” take communion today? Not unless confirmed in the church before.
Cannon Cowdery was always making people mad in the “old days” when he refused them at the rail.
I read about the craziness now and see why I “drifted away”.
Maybe the XGuv will do the same thing and solve the problem himself.
Any baptized Christian can receive in ECUSA. We moved from a very "high" church to a moderately "high" church in the 80s -- and so far as I recall this was the practice even then at our new church. Some ECUSA churches now allow "open communion" - anybody who wants to can receive, I guess Buddhists and pagans qualify now.
If you're very "high", have you looked into the Catholic church? Theologically there is actually very little difference, other than acknowledging that there was a problem with Anglican Orders around the time of Edward VI . . . . Apostolicae Curae always did bother me a little, I thought Canterbury and York's response in Sapius Officio was weak. There's a great book by an Englishman, Canon Francis Ripley, addressed specifically to Anglicans/Episcopalians. And of course Cardinal Newman's wonderful autobiography.
We have been extremely happy in our new parish. You do have to be a little careful, because there are some loons left over from the 60s and 70s still running some Catholic parishes out there, but ours is a reverent and traditional church (and the music is surprisingly good!)