I suppose my own background makes me less than objective about it, but I don't think catechised, baptized adults should go through the same preparation process that un-catechised, un-baptized adults go through.
I think it de-legitimizes what is purported to be their legitimate entry into the Church at baptism. I'd like to see the Church follow what the RCIA program actually says about those baptized in another "ecclesiastical community" and not make them do any more than is necessary in order to be received into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
Actually, your attitude is a huge, huge stumbling block to conversion. If you sincerely believe that you have an *advantage* over others because of where you are coming from, then you will stay with your own church because you want to retain that advantage.
Conversely, someone who has the desire to convert will realise that they are *missing out* on true communion with the Catholic church and that it’s a sense of humility to realise that everyone goes through the same process irrespective of their baptism.
This was the change in my attitude from the first year to the second year. Like yourself, I came from an Anglican background but I’d already jumped over to the Mennonites as I was dissatisfied with many of the abuses of the Anglican church.
I hadn’t even realised how much of my opinion of the Catholic church had been shaped by my Anglican background until I went to RCIA.
I don't know much about it (my own knowledge of the nitty-gritty of conversion depending largely on Lucile Hasley's essays written in the 1950s, and in her case -- or "then" --it was apparently strictly individual), but it would seem that the program would have to be to some extent determined by the actual prospective converts who show up.
"Unbaptized" and "uncatechized" don't necessarily mean ignorant -- many prospective converts have put a great deal of study into it before their decision. Conversely, there are many baptized and technically catechized individuals who don't seem to know much.
It does all come down to the actual individuals, and I think it would take an extraordinarily rigid program that doesn't take that into account.