1. My gripe with Vatican II is that it unintentionally precipitated the current sorry state catechesis among First World Catholics. So much superficial change occurred that people began to think that everything could be.
2. You don't seem to be able to distinguish between disciplines and the Moral Law which is absolute and cannot change.
3. The old man with the beard is an artistic depiction of God as a father figure. We know He is not an old man no more than the Holy Ghost is a bird. To suggest that people believe this is to insult their intelligence. The tradition still holds good today unless you can suggest another  way of depicting God, a blank space perhaps?