The new translations are basically all the 1965, 1962 missal. As our priest was discussing the changes, another lady and I were following along in her husband’s old missal. The wording was almost identical between the new translations and the older missal.
For the parts that remained the same, they are. But a lot of things changed in 1970 - the new canons (most of which should go away, IMHO, and a couple of which are borderline heretical), the “Responsorial Psalm,” which didn’t exist except as a very brief couple of lines before the Gospel reading, the “Acclamation,” which didn’t exist, etc. A lot of these things were based on faux archaeology popular in Protestant circles in the 1950s and 1960s, where they claimed to have discovered things that the “early Christians” did, with absolutely no evidence. So perfectly legitimate, provable traditional liturgical practices and words that had existed for centuries were thrown out, and strange modern German Protestant fantasies about 2nd Century Christian practice were inserted in their place.
Oh, I forgot; I also don’t like the cycle of readings. We hear very little St Paul anymore, and I think we should bring back the old cycle, although expand it perhaps. Also,we should make sure that we don’t bring back the old abuse where every daily mass was a memorial mass and people heard the same funeral Gospel and Epistle every day, unless there was the feast of a really important saint.
However, you’re right, the few parts of the Mass that didn’t change are now once again translated pretty much the way they were in the 1965 missal.