Inadequate - No; un-Catholic - Yes.
BTW - John the Baptist cannot be used as a model for the monastic life. There are two passages that define the normal qualifications for a pastoral leader (1 Timothy 3; Titus 1:6-9). In both passages is references marriage as the normal lifestyle. Monasticism is a remnant of neo-platonism, not biblical theology.
The same St. Paul who wrote the letters to Titus and Timothy also praised celibacy, and I don’t think the asceticism of St. John made it into the gospel by accident.