I have been privileged to meet each of the bishops in the dioceses I've lived since 1979. I appreciate what they have to put up with on obth ends of the hierarchical church. Rome is wrong not to give them much more leeway to lead. American bishops have been especially shamefully treated by Roman bureaucrats. That said, some designs are pastorally superior than others in some places or cultures.
Some designs are weak for acoustics and sight.
I still dislike it, though. It would be cool to do some more study sometime. But I come at my preferences in architecture as a trained liturgist. Perhaps that form is my favorite of all.