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The RCC needs to put more emphasis on the primcy of God’s word rather than the primacy of Rome’s word.

I think you are not seeing the pitfalls of a lack of a magisterium. As we've seen with a number of Protestant churches lately, some ordained yahoo can easily and willfully misinterpret the Bible to fit whatever agenda they have, such as promoting homosexuality, and might manage to convince plenty of others in that church to go along with it. That is one advantage that a central interpretation has: that members cannot promote a false interpretation to suit their own agenda without being apostate. The Church can then condemn the false interpretation based on established teachings. There does not appear to be any such mechanism in the Protestant churches that I am aware of.

As we’ve seen with a number of Protestant churches lately, some ordained yahoo can easily and willfully misinterpret the Bible to fit whatever agenda they have, such as promoting homosexuality, and might manage to convince plenty of others in that church to go along with it

To be fair, there are a great number of non-catholic (protestant) ministers and pastors who interpret the Bible correctly and honestly, without a magisterium. For these ministers, the mechanism to condemn false teachings is the Bible.