A Personal View on the 'SSPX Question'

From a Facebook friend of mine:

There are Catholics, who criticise the R&R (Recognize and Resist) position of the SSPX, with some criticisms being warranted, while others are not.

While I do not fully accept everything the SSPX says or does (they are, after all, not infallible), I do have a problem with the idea of outright condemning them due to their canonically irregular status - as though they were operating outside the Church.

Often, this critique is based on what is - and I need to do more reading on this topic - the practical infallibility of the Church in *certain* (there are nuances, yes) disciplinary matters.

The argument then goes: the Church's discipline cannot be bad or harmful to the faith. It can be less good, but not bad. The Society does warn against the new rites of the Church (unlike the Ecclesia Dei communities) and a lot that has become common/accepted practice since the Second Vatican Council.

Now, my problem is mainly with those who proclaim that all the "reforms" are ipso facto good, and cannot be harmful, because the Church gave us them, while nevertheless trying to seek refuge in Ecclesia Dei communities, Eastern Rites or the new Ordinariate: in short, while proclaiming that the SSPX are wrong for resisting the reforms, they, too, try their utmost best to avoid the reforms.

But we know from the Sovereign Pontiff that the idea is to completely do away with the Roman Rite as such, and have it replaced with the Pauline Rite and the other reformed rites.
So, if these rites are all good, and by no means harmful or detrimental to the faith, then why not fully embrace them, and get along with the reform programme in toto? Why subject oneself to rite-skipping (West-East, Latin-Ordinariate), which traditionally was a discouraged practice?

Is it perhaps, because they, too, deep down think that subjecting themselves to these new rites would prove harmful to their and their families' spiritual lives?

If they truly believed what they preached, then I would expect them to just accept all the novel rites with the novel ways of teaching whatever doctrine they now preach.

The Society is absolutely right in saying that The Church is currently experiencing a crisis: and it is a crisis of faith, where those charged with the safeguarding of sound doctrine have become the very ones, who are trying to undermine it.

If you believe this to be false, then by all means: entrust your spiritual life completely and without reservation to your local ordinary and his clergy.

But if you choose not to, and instead try to find some oases of tradition (even in a rite that is not your own), then perhaps it'd be better not to be too harsh on the Society.

For some faithful, the Society is the only way for them to get access to proper Catholic rites and doctrine.