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I became Roman Catholic upon leaving the Episcopal Church and its progressive innovations. When I expressed to my Episcopal priest friend that I was about to do so, he said something along the lines of “that will be a big and serious change.” I don’t think he was saying that Catholicism is a more serious denomination, rather that the structure (magestrum), theology (rules) and universality of the Catholic Church makes it a complex and almost incomprehensible entity to a non-Catholic. I discovered many of my formerly Protestant assumptions about Catholicism were correct, but as my understanding of those assumptions (the role of Mary, the nature of sin, conscience,
the sacraments etc.) increased, I found a logic, beauty and peace that transcended anything I had ever encountered in a Protestant Church. I would imagine that most converts would say something similar.