And they never saw the same banality, crudeness, etc that was just as prevalent in the good ole days. I remember hearing an elderly priest reminiscing about how another elderly priest in the same parish who could whip through his Masses in 15 minutes in the old days.  I could believe it as he almost do the same in the new rite as well.  Or the priest who had been pastor of a parish I once belonged to, who had back in the 1930's who was drunk when he offered Midnight Mass on Year and sang the Mass for Easter Sunday.  And when I was in the Franciscans we were told the story about the old friar who after the Lavabo, would take the dish and flip the water in the floor.