The Anglican Use Rite is based on the old prayer book, probably 1662, NOT the 1979 abomination. The translation of the Eucharistic Prayer is Coverdale's rendering of the original Latin.
To call Coverdale and Cranmer "tin-eared" is just silly.
I am absolutely certain of this, because I've got the DVD of the Anglican Use as celebrated at Our Lady of Walsingham, and I was an Anglican layman for the first 40-odd years of my life. My parents were in the Cathedral choir, so I was at 2 services a day with the '28 BCP until I went off to college in the 70s. Then I wound up in a choir myself for 25 years or so, so I have got both the old and the new services pretty much committed to memory.
The AUR could use some minor adjustments, since it was put together pretty quickly, but I think you're letting your spleen at the Catholic church get in the way of the facts.
That's Rite I of the Anglican Use, which is what most (all?) AU parishes use, and is what's on the DVD. But there's also Rite II, which from a cursory inspection looks just like the ICEL Novus Ordo (thus also the the 79 BCP abomination). I think they threw that in there because they didn't want to preclude the possibility that more "modern" Episcopalian parishes could swim the Tiber.
I don't think many AU folks are all that happy with Rite II (who can blame them). I think that is what sionnsar is talking about.