1.)Cradle Eastern Catholics rarely talk about “Latinizations.” Most under 60 don’t remember them or were never exposed.
I am a “cradle” Eastern Catholic.
I am well under 60.
I grew up in a parish with a married priest, somewhat of an experiment in that day and age, after a hurtful and damaging purge of the married priesthood in the generation past. This priest eventually had to turn to Orthodoxy, as the condition of married (with children) priesthood was simply not supported within a Catholic framework at that time. I always felt as if I had benefitted from being in that parish at that time. Both Father, Pani (which is what we would called the wife of the priest in our tradition) and their three daughters always treated me as if I were part of their family. I even considered the priesthood for a long time as a result of my exposure to Father on a more personal level. He is actually responsible for fostering no less than three vocations (one priest and two permanent deacons), not counting my own vocation as a cantor and choir director. All from a mission parish of less than 50 families.
I grew up in a predominately Roman Catholic neighborhood, quite close to my cousins (mother’s side) who were all raised in the Roman Catholic Church. We would attend Mass at the neighborhood parish on many occasions. Yet, we always had to explain and “prove” that we were really Catholic. To his credit, the ordinarily rather conservative senior pastor of that parish understood and was very supportive. My siblings all attended parochial school there, and he freely offered the diocesan tuition rate to my parents (as we were Catholic and had no access to parochial schools through our own parish). He would hear my confession personally on Saturday mornings, in Eastern style, using Byzantine Rite prayers. Unfortunately, he was the only person outside my immediate extended family who actually did know we were, indeed, Catholic.
My first born child was the first in our Eparchy to be received into the Church via the full Rites of Christian Initiation, restored in 1997. Both sides of my family were astonished by this. Why? Because of course on the Roman Catholic side, First Holy Communion and Confirmation are reserved for future instance. The administration of First Eucharist was most surprising to them. Many didn’t even realize that those of my generation were also Chrismated/Confirmed at Baptism. On the Eastern Catholic side of the family, the generation before me was so Latinized that many did not understand that this was, in fact, our proper tradition.
It was only in 1997 that the proper form of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed was restored, and the previously inserted Filioque was removed from the text. The younger folks had no idea, The older folks thought we were becoming Orthodox and were rejecting our Catholicity. Why? Because they grew up in an era where to Latinize was to prove one was Catholic. It had for their generation become a matter of survival in the Catholic world.
So, while we may not speak of Latinizations (at least not nearly as publicly and often as Roman Catholics discuss issues in their Church), we under 60 have certainly become well aware of them as our traditions are restored.
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We also have the very new idea in contemporary American Orthodoxy that children should be left free to wander and act out against their parents in whatever manner during the liturgy, then be brought up to communion. I can tell you that, however wonderful parents find this, others are scandalized by it.