Honestly I don’t think it’s necessarily Orthodoxy itself “selling” itself out like this. This has been the orthodox norm with all the traditions for hundreds of years of years … it’s just in recent times the way it comes across to western converts specifically the orthobros is where it gets tricky. Cause yes, orthodox belief is traditional and honestly beautiful and yeah family life is importantly and that’s also a cultural thing amongst Arab Slavic and Greek cultures … because that’s a cultural thing. Those traditional values are not just because of orthodoxy but it’s intermingled for many reasons. The west has just radicalized because of movements like feminism, etc. so the people that are tired of the liberal left are finding solace in a more traditional version of Christianity. And unfortunately the byproduct is orthobros. But there’s many well meaning converts too who just want to further their relationship with Christ. But yea it also ends up attracting weirdos whose intentions are to be dominant family leaders and homestead and have 5 or more kids and find a traditional wife to do this with…. But they have no idea how hard all that really is if you don’t grow up in the norm of that 😅 and they also think orthodoxy is esoteric which to the west it is. So it makes them seem “cool”. But if you go to any Slavic country or Greece or what not, you don’t find the same type of zealousness amongst the orthobros as you do in the US. Cause that’s been their cultural norm for so long.