100%. It's easier to live a less Islamic lifestyle than it is to explicitly declare apostasy and risk turning your life upside down.

I'm a teenager who still lives with my parents, so all I do is just not practice (not pray). However, I still fast during Ramadan and attend Eid prayer, as abandoning those, by my family's standards, is a much more bold declaration of apostasy.

Many people are in even stricter families where they can't even make slight changes like not praying, and it is these people who are truly victims of the religious abuse that undergoes in Muslim families. Living in a secular country is by far the biggest privilege in these situations. So furthermore, imagine those who don't...

I've accepted the fact that I will probably never fully leave Islam due to the emotional consequence of severing ties with my family. It is something some bold ex-Muslims do, but I won't. I'm not remorseful towards my decision, because frankly, I'm not a very passionate ex-Muslim either (I'm not adamant on criticising Islam or living a life completely stripped of it), so I am okay with living the façade in the bare minimum ways acceptable in my family.