I’m with you. No one will learn all the words of the Gloria because we are relegated to singing the chorus.
It’s time for the laity to say no to all the hoopla going on up on the altar. Singers belong in the back of the church where they can distract us as little as possible. I ask them to labor anonymously for the love of God!
And the petitions are getting to be a liberal litany! Enough!
One VERY liberal parish in my area has a duet. The laity basically sit and listen to the concert going on.
My other bugaboos are, using the piano when there is an organ AND the “raising up” of the cantor because it is assumed that the congregation is too stupid to know when to sing.
Get the musicians to the back where they belong and let’s pay attention to The Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity instead.