They certainly are.
Nothing in this world is too big to fail.The religious leaders of Jesus' day imagined themselves immune to some 'Johnny-come-lately' preacher.It seems they thought themselves and their traditions too big to fail.After all,they had God's assurance,any who disobeyed them,disobeyed God!
Unfortunately for them they had strayed so far from the truth they could no longer wield it in their defense.So they got all snarky instead.
Modern catholiciism has become the tool of the demonic, positioning billions to embrace the merging of Catholicism and Islam.