I agree with you in essence, but what really is the "Communion fast" since you can go right up with a breakfast burrito on your breath and particles on your tongue and get Communion? Where's the fast? And where do lay people and recipients get off handling the Host?
And when did Sunday become Saturday afternoon so the church goers could sleep in or get their t-time? I thought that the Sabbath in the Catholic Church and most of the Christian world was on Sunday.
As for Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist proliferating beyond all sense and decorum, I agree with you. As long as there are priests and deacons, they should be out there doing their Sacramental duty. I myself have more than once declined to volunteer as an EM because I think it's even more inappropriate for females to step in and do a role of the ordained. Not because females aren't devout and holy, but because we should not be pushing the edges of ordained ministry.
Nix to "altar girls" too. (There! I said it!)
As for Saturday evening becoming part of Sunday, that's actually more legit. The Church has from ancient days celebrated Vigils, precisely because the earliest (Jewish and Christian) practices regarded the day as being from sundown to sundown.
The fact that it's convenient for some, shouldn't be an argument against it.
I'm in our parish's newly-organized Schola Cantorum, doing the singing for the Latin Mass. So if you want to do your part to bring back the good old ways and the good old days, Come Aww-w-n-n-n- Down, buddy! VENITE ADOREMUS!