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Can you tell the difference between the legitimate option of doing the Confeitor or doing the Kyrie and the practice of the preist leaving words out of the Creed that he doesn't agree with?

Yes. And I guess I'm sheltered, but, even in the wild days of the 70s and 80s, I never ran across a priest who just made stuff up (like Eucharistic Prayers) or who left things out or switched things around.

Maybe the Fort Worth diocese is just a staid place. I know of no threats by our bishops against liturgical innovators; I just don't know of any.

The only liturgical dance I ever saw was two years ago at a Martin Luther King Mass, which I just happened to stumble into. The bishop presided, and some acculturated women did some weaving and dipping bringing up the gifts.

Liturgical dance? Look no further than Grapevine, Texas. I attended an Easter mass and baptismal there a couple of years ago that seemed more like a Disney production than a Catholic mass. The best part was the "Hawaiian alleluia" parade, featuring fire, masks, and folks dancing down the aisle to the accompaniment of the electric, funkified "praise orchestra". (Nobody genuflected as they passed before the altar; the Tabernacle was in a small room off the main hallway, across from the water fountain.) When the Consecration rolled around only ourselves and the Mexicans hit the floor (there were no kneelers); everyone else sat comfortably and causually in their folding chairs watching bread and wine become the Body and Blood of God Himself.

We called it the Hakuna Matata mass. "It means N.O. worries!"

Would I attend mass again in that parish? N.O. thanks. I'll take the closed-minded, hidebound traditionalists over at good old St. Mary the Virgin any day. Our priest does not permit the Lord Himself to be treated as an hors d'oeuvre in our parish.

And I guess I'm sheltered, but, even in the wild days of the 70s and 80s, I never ran across a priest who just made stuff up (like Eucharistic Prayers) or who left things out or switched things around. Maybe the Fort Worth diocese is just a staid place.

If this is the case, then consider yourself lucky. I sure consider myself lucky. The vast majority of the people who complain about the NO Mass, are in actuality complaining about the abuses, not the rubrics themselves.