Yes, that's exactly it, and Phil Lawler (one of the best Catholic writers and thinkers in the U.S.) has nailed them on it more than once.
This is a particularly good example: The Noise-to-Signal Ratio at the USCCB (Link, and it's an incisive, short read.)
The problem is that 99 of the "Bishops' Statements" are largely or entirely outside of their canonical teaching authority. They are matters which do not involve moral absolutes or intrinsic right and wrong, but rather prudential (practical) choices between different ways to do a good thing.
For instance, "Feed the hungry" is a moral absolute (don't let people starve) but the "prudential judgment" is the queston "How you gonna do that?" It is perfectly legitimate to say, for instance, "Let's stop issuing government EBT cards and rely on Church-sponsored Soup Kitchens and Food Banks." "Let's make sure we have full employment so everyone can earn their daily bread." "Let's restrict EBT payments to rice, beans, cornbread and greens, and pay for it out of the Congressional Pension Fund." Things like that.
The USCCB should fire 90% of its staff and restrict itself to faith, morals, and internal discipline. That might be the only way to save what's left.
You ain't kidding, ma'am. Classic organizational mission creep. If they were fortunate enough to have, say, a farmers committee actually composed of farmers, then they might be in a position to suggest more. What we hear now sounds like perhaps sincere but still blind guesses. And like you said, even then it's a prudential issue and aren't fundamentals getting skipped?
And... I gladly make the disclaimer that I worship at, and more or less believe the characteristic theology of, an independent evangelical church.
However, to me it’s a fundamentally larger issue than a Roman Catholic thing. It’s a Christian thing. Christians may disagree on approaches to Christian things between families of congregations, but when a church in a position to know better positions itself, instead of a gospel light TO the world, as a maven OF the world, it’s logically a concern to me as a Christian.