Belteshazzar, I am a Methodist ordained elder. Would it help to understand my point if I were also to affirm that the Methodism of Wesley is all but dead?
No. Apples and oranges. Methodism has no equivalent to the Lutheran Confessions.
Also, per your statement: “The Protestantism of Luther is all but dead.”
Luther was not a Protestant. That is a pejorative label affixed later by ... ah ... a very large religious affiliation with its headquarters in a very famous southern European city.
Lutherans are not Protestants. Remember, there were two reformations, a first and conservative one, and then a second, radical one. The Lutherans (also, by the way, a pejorative term affixed by the same entity) are children of the first, the Methodists of the second.