This is very true! It annoys me how the American Catholic church has gotten rid of things like Evensong, etc. Even very Catholic parishes that have the Latin Mass don’t keep the ancient rituals and services. Grrrr! A sense of beauty is so important to religion. I’m currently listening to lectures on comparative religion. I started with Hinduism because of their brilliant sense of beauty and color.
Yes, the American churches, of every denomination, have sadly, dumbed down their services and thrown the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak, to get more rear ends in the pews. But the opposite has happened...more and more people are just not going now.