“I would like some Catholic somewhere to explain exactly what the point of all this Mary stuff is anyways.”
Not Catholic, but when we studied cults in seminary, there always has been a thread of mother-son co-god heathen belief. This is just one more where Mary is co-redemptrix.
The only thing I have been able to pick out from how Catholics respond to Mary is that they perceive her to be more accessible than God.
It comes from a skewed view of God and His character.