Yet the reason that Catholic converts to Evangelical churches, is that they are seeking a deeper relationship with their God, not a lessor one.
90% of them give that reason, that seems to disagree with your claim.
I know several of these people, and one of the reasons the majority of them give is that Catholics don’t read the Bible. That is when I know that they surely weren’t paying attention!!!! because the whole Mass is pretty much directly from the Bible!!!!!! Three readings and a Psalm from the Bible, the priest’s words, from the Bible.
Who knows the dynamic and who knows the fruit that will come from it. I know several reverts whose time away from the Church led them to a fuller understanding of the Church and the faith. This isn’t about numbers, it is about Truth and Faith and wanting all the souls that God loves to rest in eternity with their Creator.