I'm not talking about the vast majority of Protestants, I'm talking about the YOPIOS crowd.
Nonsense. Your experience is very narrow. The Gospels are read from all the time in Protestant services.
In mainline Anglican, Methodist and Lutheran churches they are, everywhere else is a free-for-all.
Your point that EVERYWHERE ELSE is simply a free-for-all is simplistic and quite untrue.
Non-mainline Protestant churches teach from the Gospels all the time.
Again, your experience seems remarkably narrow.