True enough, but that's the risk that comes with freedom of conscience. People sometimes choose poorly.

As for the negative effects you listed, I hold the U.S. bishops largely responsible for that. This is what happens when you dumb down the breadth and depth of Catholic moral teaching to a handful of simplistic platitudes and continue to use a childhood model of pedagogy on Christian adults.

The problem isn't the Tradition. It's the current custodians of it.