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 like an irrational and unconsolable toddler.

But when you look at these "issues" they have more closely? The vast majority of the time that's usually not what the text was saying at all. The individual is usually just having a very biased, highly emotional overreaction to the text because it doesn't fit into their established opinions and worldviews, or wasn't worded in the exact way they wanted it to be; in many cases it's very clear they didn't even parse the text fully before flying off the handle about it. They just went with whatever off-the-cuff, knee-jerk reaction they had to a first cursory reading ... The reality of what the text is saying is often a lot more boring or basic than they've made it out to be.

Worse, perhaps? Is that when you actually sit down and further factor in simple historical context, these "problems" frequently turn out not to actually be any kind of legitimate or singificant problem with the text at all. But, rather, simplistic things which merely clearly 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 aren't actually even suitable for a wider audience at all in the first place. They're meant for members of those specific traditions, are being taken out of their intended contexts, and are having standards applied to them which shouldn't be, and which have no actual bearing on their accuracy or worth.

The unhinged tantrums about them, then, are similar to an Evangelist walking into a Catholic church and throwing a tantrum about all the photos of Saints on the walls; it smacks of how Hellenic Pothytheists will often whine about how the ways Kemetic Reconstructionists talk about their Gods is "Hubristic". And in both cases, the only true response really is "not even your monkey, definitely not your circus".

Or to put it another way: Wrong tradition. Wrong rituals. Wrong ethics. Wrong standards. And this place wasn't built for you anyways. So keep to your own side of the fence, and get your damned nose out of your neighbor's yard. Because 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 as an outsider. 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.