You Need To Understand That Some Things Just Aren't For You To Begin With

I've found that people routinely overblow the "problems" they find with materials, and frequently focus more on complete non-issues than real issues. And not even in any kind of legitimately constructive manner; it feels like they only do it to scream because they want to feel important. But in reality half the things they're mad about could be solved through:

1. Simply being aware of historical context they're often missing;
2. Simply reading the text more closely, and with less emotionality.

The last one seems to be 99% of the problem most of the time, I feel like; like they go in looking for an issue to be mad about because they've read all these other people talking about these complete non-issues with these materials. And instead of actually reading the material closely, with an open mind? The second they find something they dislike, or which is on one of these "things wrong with Witchcraft books" lists of non-issues, they just proceed to scream about it irrationally.

But when you look more closely, the vast majority of the time that's usually not what the text was saying at all. It's usually just a very biased, emotional overreaction to the text. The reality is often a lot more boring or basic than they've made it out to be.

Worse, perhaps? When you further factor in simple historical context these "problems" turn out not to actually be any kind of legitimate problem at all. But, rather, things which root them very firmly in their historical era of creation- or, more often more correctly, within a very specific Tradition that was prominent in that era. Meaning these texts are not actually suitable for a wider audience at all in the first place. They are suitable for members of that tradition.

Bitching about it, then, is about like an Evangelist walking into a Catholic church and bitching at all the photos of Saints on the walls- or smacks of how Hellenics will often whine about how the ways in which Kemetics talk about their Gods is "Hubristic". and in both of those cases the only true response really is "not even your monkey, definitely not your circus".

In other words: Wrong tradition. Wrong rituals. Wrong ethics. Wrong standards. And this place wasn't built for you anyways. Furthermore, the chances of you, an outsider, actually having the correct level of training and education to actually pinpoint any of the real and legitimate issues is slim to none. And even if you did, it's not your place to try and fix them anyways; it's still not your circus. It's honestly better if you just exited stage left and stopped being a melodramatic control freak over toys that aren't (and never were) yours to begin with.