Do you not pay attention to history at all?
There were not enough Bibles to supply every church; how could they have been given out en masse?
The Church couldn’t keep up on supplying Bibles. How could they have supplied the manpower to translate Scripture into several dozen different languages?
Where their is a will their is a way.. But the desire to even do that was missing.. The reformers had no problem with doing it.. why not the RC church with all its resources..