OK, I get what you’re saying.
My impression of a lot of these people who make that kind of claim is that they actually believe the disputed activities within the Roman Catholic church distract people from putting their faith in Jesus Christ for their salvation. Rather than believing that they are literally impossible things for a Christian to do. They have found a personal faith in Jesus Christ that illuminates and cleanses their souls and gives them peace and joy, and are often from religious backgrounds where they used to engage in ritual but didn’t have that personal faith.
could be, but they give us Catholics a wrong impression (since they are over-represented on FR) that all non-Catholics are like these.