I have not been here long enough to dispute or confirm your analysis. It is though a worthy one. I recall vividly the carefully supportive wordsmithing of John Allan Jr. that "assuaged" the John Paul and Benedict insensitivities and prevarications,  unerringly honouring Benedict, for example, as "the teaching Pope" (when he should have been eviscerating the retrograde attempts to revive  anachronistic institutionalism through perversions of scripture, reality, truth, authority, intelligence and honesty.) The price of "in-ness" I granted.
However Truthtotell, NCR is also "us". "Us" the opinionated like me, the knowledgeable, the gentle and wise, the "unsettlers", the informed along with the adamant restorationists and defenders of institutionalism.  
NCR stands open to dissent, a conduit for dissenters and if it is to be at all credible, it must also be open to dissent to the dissenters and the status quo.
Be better, but continue to be...