Who Is Allowing This?

Over the past week or so, I've heard from two visitors who strongly imply that the Ordinary Form mass stems from errors in the Second Vatican Council and that it's somehow unpleasing to the Almighty in a way that the Divine Worship Missal is not. If I press them, they sorta-kinda back off this, but not quite, and in e-mails they resort to the standard gaslighting technique -- no, you didn't understand what I said, you aren't being charitable, you're being judgmental, etc etc.

A visitor who pays attention has what I think is a more level-headed view of the Ordinary Form mass:

The rewrite of the Mass promulgated licitly in 1968 still follows the rubrics of the old Mass and the old celebrations of the early Church. . . . I have included a link for you that compares the Tridentine Mass to the Novus Ordo, both in English, side by side. You can see that even though some of the texts of the prayers have changed, the structure of the Mass is the same, so the spurious claim that the OF is a total rewrite and not congruent with the Tridentine Mass is bunk.

The Council of Trent occurred from 1543-1563 making the text of that Mass only 400 years old. What did the Mass text say for 1500 years from 33AD up til that point? Wasn’t the Tridentine Mass considered a rewrite then? Hmmm. The parts of the Mass that have not changed since the Last Supper and the Early Church are still in use.

Here is a concise page of the most important parts of the Mass from the USCCB. I think the biggest mistake your correspondent is making is conflating the decline in Mass attendance since the 1960s with the introduction of the OF Mass. The relationship between the two has not been shown to be causal/effectual but, by a most generous classification, as corollary.

I find that the OF (using EP I) tracks closer to the Tridentine Mass in form and order of prayers than the DW Mass. I don’t find it a double standard to consider the DW the Johhny-Come-Lately that is more of an outlier than the OF.

What seems to be happening in the ordinariate is that the theme is shifting from the "precious treasures of the Anglican spiritual patrimony" to something like "the second Council got it all wrong, and to fix it, we need to go back (!) to the Divine Worship liturgy, kneeling, in both kinds, on the tongue". Advocates of this view claim, among other things, that the decline in mass attendance since the 1960s stems from the Second Council's errors. But if this is the case, why do so few people come to DW masses?

Isn't it in fact part of a Protestant mindset to think Rome has got things wrong, and our little group has it right?

Beyond that, who thought it was a good idea to bring Protestants into the Church by setting up a separate little compartment for them?

It's hard to avoid asking whether this mindset is being permitted, if not tacitly encouraged, by the authorities in Houston. Their lifestyles and careers depend on it.