>>Innovation is abuse.<<
Wrong. Innovation is not abuse. Abuse make a Holy Mass ilicit. Innovation does not.
We are told in the GIRM what we are to do. We are not told what we cannot do. Therefore, holding hands for the Our Father is not an abuse because the laity is not given a posture for this prayer. One may fold one’s hands, hold hands or lay prostrate. While the last is a hazard to fire code, it is not forbidden. The Orans position for the laity is forbidden because the “Hands Extended” position is directed to the Priest and Deacon ONLY. For the laity to use it in the Holy Mass is an abuse.
See? And also understand that if you know the GIRM, you are not Most People. Most people have no clue that there are “General Instructions” at all.
It is an abuse to subject people in the pews to innovations.
Innovation - as practiced in most dioceses and parishes - is most certainly an abuse because it is undertaken for all thr wrong reasons and often hides or masks or overpowers what the Church intends the Mass to say and achieve.