Reform Jews, how do you feel about modern service changes?

How do you feel about the Shabbat service changes over the last couple decades?

The changes in melody, the addition of new supplemental prayers and songs, the loss of the more structured progression of the service, some of the more commonplace prayers being left out or shortened, no longer opening the ark during Aleinu, etc etc etc.

Please share your thoughts. I’ve always been sort of thrown off by it. I grew up in the ‘90s. In a congregation that was led by rabbis who were more on the hippie side but still maintained a decent amount of traditional structure to things. And I’m definitely someone on the more traditional side.

After college, when I would come home and go to a service I’d find myself completely lost. I didn’t know these new melodies, and they were not very easy to follow along with. Lots of things in the service were beginning to get switched up.

In recent years, especially with the new prayer book, it feels so very different to me. Like so much is missing. It doesn’t feel as familiar and comforting as it did when I was young. Because I feel lost with these different melodies and new songs I don’t know. The staples that I came to love over my lifetime are changed or even missing. Idk. Maybe I’m just really bad with change and I cling too much to tradition.

I’d like to know how others have felt about these changes over the years.

Please be kind and respectful in your comments. I’m not trying to bash anything, I just feel like so much of what I knew seems to be gone and it’s hard for me.