The real problem, if not outright tragedy, is that most Catholics don't even remember what the Catholic Church was like from her inception in the 1st century until 1964, that is when your church leaders changed everything into something hitherto unknown, semi-Protestant and even outright unrecognizable.
Why, many John-Paul II generation Catholics probably think, the new Pope is trying to "change" the Church unaware that it was changed primarily under JPII, and the current Pope was one of the major architects of those changes. I suppose, he is doing his best to undo what the Church should have never done, fully realizing the gravity of a mistake which he authored along with others.
Yes, that is a huge problem. I was scandalized the first time I really understood what was changed in the 1960s (I'm 23, so all that happened was well before my time. So many Catholics are completely ignorant of it though. So many others don't mind that the Roman Rite was deformed (yes, I'll use that word) into something that was unrecognizable as such... because it was easier.
Also, the CNS article is not completely accurate; As I said earlier, a small number of feasts did have readings from the OT. One such feast is the Immaculate Conception, which had a lesson from Prov. 8. Admittedly, the OT readings are few and far between in the Extraordinary Form, though they do come up as Introit and Communion verses (which unfortunately would not have been re-read in the vernacular).
Thank you also for you explanations in 38; that gives me something to chew at for awhile.