The Jews rejected 2 Macc after the crucifixion. I don't think their rejection should have any authority for Christians. The Christian church accepted 2 Macc with no, or almost no, disagreement from AD 400 to Luther's day.
The fact that Catholics state which portions of the Bible will be read at mass, and read them on a schedule, enables protestants to state: “Catholics only read 12% of the Bible, excluding Psalms, and that’s pathetic.” The statistic, of course, does not include any private readings that individual Catholics may do on their own.
Protestants, with a couple of exceptions, do not have any set schedule of readings, so how does anyone know how much of the Bible they read? I am positive that there are extremely few pastors who assign one book of the Bible per week to be read by their congregation, and who then preach a sermon on that book. Even so, a full year would not get through the Bible. And they certainly don’t read a full book per week aloud to their congregations.
Protestants, on the other hand, concentrate on a very few books of the Bible, and preach them till their congregation THINKS it is getting the Bible, when in reality they are not. Instead, Protestants preach Bible stories, on the level of a 12 yo, for the main part.
Before I became Catholic, I attended Protestant churches each for half a year at least. I did not hear as much of the Bible in them, as I did in the Catholic church. Of course, I was interested in the Bible, and read it several times before making a decision. I still read it, in several versions.
Oh, and NO ONE told me what to believe, or if they tried, I ignored them. I guess you’d have to say I was led by the Holy Spirit, because that has always been my prayer before reading.