My son emailed me a list of the changes to the traditional Catholic Mass/Prayers. I just don’t like them, maybe I’m an oldtimer (47 yo) but they sound a bit politically correct. That was my impression.
A lot of the controversy about this has come from the more liberal wing of the Church...because they are too "challenging" for the "sheeple" to understand.
In fact, this new translation is a whole lot more faithful to the original Latin text of the Novus Ordo.
They are as old as the Church. The manner to which you are accustomed and, indeed, with which you grew up is only as old as you are and goes back to Vatican II liturgical innovations in 1964.
Far from Politically correct.
What they are correct to is the translation from the Latin Vulgate. Check out the Latin and Douay Rheims translations that annalex post to the Daily Readings threads — and you will see the similarities.
I have always thought that the current translations were very politically correct sounding. The new ones actually strike me as the opposite, and sound much more intentionally religious and sacred.