Neither Ad Hoc Committees nor even Synods mean very much to average Catholics if they don't even know there are such groups.  Task forces [how many people knew about these groups?] "make recommendations" for prayer, local dialogue on the parish/diocesan levels with 'training if possible'.  What does that mean?  Most parishes don't even place this info in parish bulletins, nor do the priests refer to this in their homilies, nor are there groups gathered to participate in any discussions at the parish and/or diocesan level.

All of this is like taking lots of tissue paper and crumpling it into a ball.  It makes a little noise---but that's all it does.  It is an anemic response to a deep seated problem that has been in the US since the end of the Civil War.  The official Catholic Church did next to nothing then and the same is true today.