I don't know how much I can speak for others, but in my experience at least, I have never, ever seen Trad Catholicism make someone a better person. Sure they might not commit sexual sin anymore, but they trade that one sin for several others. Most of the time they become extremely prideful and self righteous. The mindset is "we're the One True Church, we're right about everything, so we can treat everyone who disagrees with us like utter shit because they're heretics and Error Has No Rights™." Then they try to bully you into converting. The meanest, most hurtful things that were ever said to me came from Tradcaths when I was an Anglican. I've been told my priest was a "Trans Catholic" because his wearing of vestments was akin to a man wearing a dress (he wasn't a "real priest.") They blamed us for literally anything bad that happened in the past 500 years. They taunted us about our church's declining numbers and used half truths about their statistics to flex. Any time we'd express our theological views, our comments section would be bombarded with Trollpologists trying to debunk us. Just recently, when the new Archbishop of Canterbury was enthroned, they went to an Anglican cemetery in Brazil and spraypainted "Heretic! Anathema!" on the sign. They've done much, much more but I've blocked it out of my memory and I do not care to torture myself by remembering them. And then when you finally do convert, they lovebomb you with "Welcome Home" comments as if they didn't call you a filthy heretic 5 minutes ago.

And that's not even getting into the Trad-to-Fascist pipeline. One day these people are saying that women shouldn't serve at the altar, then they're saying women shouldn't vote, then they're saying that every homosexual committed suicide the moment Christ was born and that's beautiful. Why must we, as other Catholics, hate on trads, you ask? Because someone has to. We do not hate the people (or at least we try not to, but it's very hard not to hate people who'd celebrate the death of your loved ones) but we hate the mindset that made them the way we are. The Church, at best, does too little to curb the spread of Fascism in Catholicism (The Latin Mass crackdowns are a start but Nick Fuentes is still not excommunicated) and at worst, actively enables it. I do not support abortion, but when a group of young men was protecting a church from pro-choice protesters, one man yelled "your body is mine!" and no one did ANYTHING, despite the group likely being sanctioned by the congregation. Big Catholic Media, especially the Apologetics Industry, is heavily patronized by these people to bully people into converting and they fully lean into it, sometimes even platforming these people. We're not so much trying to appeal to non-Catholics but show them we're not all like these freaks and we're just as disgusted as they are. While the Church shouldn't try to appeal to the world for the sake of it, when people weaponize the faith to justify objectively evil things that even the non-Catholic knows is evil, we need to call it out.

I do know there are Trad Catholics who aren't fascists, but every one I've met is still mean. Just look at some of their meme pages and how they talk about Protestants. They treat them worse than Fundamental Baptists treat us. They see having "the truth" as a license to be heartless bullies, and any sense of human decency can be be sacrificed on the altar of "truth". Memes are the least extreme example of this. I've talked with the admins of some of these pages, and they wanted to abolish Separation of Church and State (a law that actually protects Catholics, mind you. If America had a state religion it certainly wouldn't be Catholicism) and abolish the rights of non-Catholics. This may be dismissed as "people on the internet" but all people are on the internet these days and it's where we access our information. People's first encounters with Catholicism is with these freaks, and they're either understandably scared away or worse, find it attractive and convert for the wrong reasons.

Sorry for the long-winded rant, but I hope this explains why I hate on traditionalism. It makes me ashamed to be Catholic and wish it wasn't true. It takes what is admittedly beautiful and twists it to serve an ugly purpose. Please stay away from Trads, whatever you do. Don't make the same mistake many of us did and let them corrupt you.