I know "quality of music" was one of the big things on the list... and in reading the synodal documents... it talked about how people in the congregation complained about the quality of music at churches.

The true beauty of the liturgy, therefore, is found not so much in the merely aesthetic quality of its celebration, but rather in its presentation of the splendors of Christ himself
(cf. 2 Cor 4:6)
.
As the prologue of John’s Gospel tells us , “Through him all things came to be and not one thing had its being but through him. All that came to be had life in him and that life was the light of men” (1:3- 4). Here we see that, according to John’s theology, the medieval notion that liturgy and sacraments serve to hide the mysterious reality within them is actually mistaken (E.g., “Adoro te devote latens Deitas” ). For if the life of Christ truly exists in the world as light, then the Church’s liturgy, too, must reveal, not hide, the paschal mystery it celebrates.

And so, for example, to so camophlage [sic] the altar or pulpit with multiple candles and flowers, or punctuate the sanctuary with sloganed banners and tables, or to overwhelm the whole celebration with“wall-to-wall” music ---thereby obscuring the liturgy’s more primary symbols--- and to do so all in a vain effort to beautify the experience, is actually to betray the very nature of the liturgy itself as a sacramental celebration of Christ as the Source of all beauty in the world. Design and elegance are important, but never at the expense of the liturgy’s more central symbolic forms

Could it also be that, with the loss of Latin and the sacred aura
surrounding the pre-Vatican II, Tridentine liturgy, many Catholics no longer experience a difference between how the new liturgy is commonly celebrated
and the ordinariness of the rest of their lives, at least not enough to
lift them above the banality of the secular world in which
they live, and give them a sense of God's holiness in their midst?

The most typical complaints in regard to the liturgy that Catholics across the country have expressed in recent years are (1) the lack of reverence and prayerfulness in its celebration, (2) the triteness of the words and music they are often asked to sing, and (3) the failure of homilists to break open the deeper Christian meaning of their lives in the world.
Since among these the need for good homilies is obviously paramount,
what programs or remedies to existing programs might be adopted to ensure that good homilies become more and more standard in the Church, instruction that truly
enlightens and supports the Christian life of the faithful?

we ought to ask ourselves whether the experience of attending Mass (preaching, music, ars celebrandi) is doing anything to attract them or drive [men] away.

hand-holding with strangers, and introducing yourself to neighbors before Mass. There are the hymns that are so "politically correct" that I don't think any man would want to sing them:

Hmmmm.

I have serious reservations about imposing Marketing 202 terminology and concepts on the question of one's obligation to God.

Granted that there is no intent to do so by members of this forum, it seems that we are accepting and using the language (i.e., accepting the terms of the debate) offered by the "business of church" people.

And by the way: since we are obliged to worship God, it IS "a chore." Duty often is just that.

So what?

"Good, Mass only lasted 45 minutes this Sunday."

Don't give the novelty crowd ideas! Next we will be seeing the Electric Mass!

For all of Nativity’s laudable concern to seek out the lost and to welcome the stranger, I found the experience of the liturgy itself a bit lonely.