I agree on your notion to

doing away with the bullshit cluttering “teachings”

My realisation so far is that we people from the West have distanced ourselves so much from ourselves (culture, religion, family) that it seems only consequential to look for what we have lost elsewhere. Our own nest has been so defiled, misunderstood, despised or ridiculed that you can hardly call yourself a Christian today without the transgressions of this faith being mentioned in the same breath.

People today allegedly want to get by without "lables" and "lose their ego", and they appear as non-Christians or as atheists or whatever.

I've come to think over the years that if you don't have a faith of your own, you're not in a position to accept any other faith. It is non-Christians who supposedly turn to the teachings of their world neighbours, Buddhism in particular.
These non-Christians are then also non-Buddhists.

A Christian does not need to convert, he knows that the Buddhist or Hindu or Muslim is more similar to him than different from him, at the same time it is clear that there are also stark differences due to the necessity and nature of geographical and cultural aspects (language as well as practice). As a Christian, I don't want to convert or punish or force all non-believers.
Only non-Christians, non-Buddhists, non-Muslims, non-Jews etc. claim that this would be the case. They have successfully denigrated all faith, branding religion as the cause of all evil.

Now, what I think is that no one really believes in this "manifestation" stuff. While it sounds fancy, it is not. It maybe just another form of expression to set yourself a goal. But when young people are stuffed throughout their lives with advertisements of this sort, they start to repeat it for themselves to "be and become everything and everyone they want". In their minds, that is. While in real life they have a hard time to be in a solid relationship with a man or a woman. Also, I see the young proud themselves to be a "social nerd" or "introverted" and advertising this as a sort of virtue.

there are in fact limitations we have to work within and the universe is not a hybrid of magic genie & Santa Claus whose purpose is to appease any & all our egoic desires

I assume that most modern people believe in nothing at all - despite the sugary language used - because we have become so convinced that the cosmos, our earth and all living things are merely the result of the random chaotic collision of celestial bodies and that life somehow evolved by itself from a so-called primordial soup. Well, that could pass for a belief, but it's not enough to get you excited about being human.

And it offers absolutely nothing for dealing with real events such as family problems, emotional distress, death, etc. On the contrary, this worldview is perfect for not adhering to any faith at all. Rather, to remain superstitious and share the fear according to which a chaotic universe on the one hand refers to the depressing view of the drifting apart of the heavenly bodies and on the other hand emphasises the terrifying collisions with comets, deadly gamma rays from outer space, burning out suns and an earth that is always doomed.

I consider this constant fear, just like the constant depression, to be superstition.

In other words, an exaggerated view of danger combined with a depressing outlook that fosters a sense of loneliness (all planets are moving away from each other due to an "expanding universe").
There is even a kind of cynical schadenfreude about this view, or a masochism centred on misery.

When the actually interesting and inspiring teachings of the original writings of religious background are superficially taken up by people and appear in their own published texts (as here on hive and elsewhere on the Internet) and the reading public has nothing better to do than to confirm such superficialities, the impression arises that "everyone" is equally stupid. The constant confirmation, repetition and regurgitation of uneducated statements builds up a huge library of insubstantial chatter.

I am guilty of having done it myself and being on that path to find meaning and "losing ego", I was a repeater of "wisdom" which I cannot seriously claim to have, in particular not when I was publishing about it.

I finally am coming back to my Christian background and start appreciating what is to be found about it in books and real scripts or their interpretations from people more intelligent than me. I recommend reading G. K. Chesterton. You want a link?