During the Reformation the Protestants returned to receiving while standing to show there rejection of the Catholic teaching on transubstantiation and to deny a distinction between the ordained clergy and the laity. It is within this historical context that Catholics react against standing for Communion.
I can only speak to my own experience that when young, raised as a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, we kneeled at the altar rail when taking communion. We also took both wine and wafer, and the wine was from a communal cup (later they went to individual cups). I was later confirmed in the Catholic church upon marriage. I don't like a lot of the modern "innovations" in the Catholic church, and frankly, the Lutheran church I attended as a child was much more traditional than many modern-day Catholic churches (Tridentine Mass churches being the exception).