There's much to like, but, as you imply, thirty years of vernacular liturgy (with much of it inspired by heretics) simply cannot hold a candle to the five hundred year-long Anglican liturgy development.
And the hymns! We opened last week with "Praise to the Lord, The Almighty, the king of Creation" (very, very good) but it was followed with incomprehensible Kumbaya-wannabe gibberish.
Borrow some Anglicanisms, for Heaven's sake work on the music, and we'll see...
He has to throw in junk like "Gift of Finest Wheat" from time to time for the few but noisy Kum-ba-ya crowd (we do have a few - and if folks want horrible stuff for their funerals, we oblige gladly and without complaining). And the parish has been using that awful Haagen "Massive Cremation" for years . .. he's plotting to introduce substitutes when choir practice begins again in the fall. Anybody familiar with the "Danish Mass"? I don't know it, but if our choirmaster thinks it's good, it's OK.
Here's my gripe: why do the printers of the Missalette feel they have to change the words of all the hymns EVER so slightly? I have been in Episcopal choirs since age 6, I can sing the first verse of every hymn in the 1940 hymnal from memory (and most in the 82), and with the tried and true ones like "Praise Ye the Lord" and "Crown Him With Many Crowns" I know all the verses from memory. So when they ring in a different word here and there, it drives me NUTS (I always realize it as the word is marching automatically out of my mouth and it's too late to get it back . . . )
LOL. A few years ago there was an article in First Things about the struggles of a (Lutheran) convert to Roman Catholicism to find a decent parish. She related that her kids were soon begging to go back to "Mr. Bach's Church."
Eventually she found a small, working class parish that still used Latin.