I too appreciate a well edited MTL because even if its MTL'd if the person editing it is fluent in English they can at least go over the output and realize where things don't make sense and fix it. However, the problem with this is two-fold.
One is that for the vast majority of MTL the fan translator puts in a minimal amount of effort so its unreadble garbage more often than not. Often times the mistakes are so insanely obvious you wonder if they proofread it at all before hitting upload.
The other problem is that by putting out a half assed chapter, that chapter will now be shitty for the rest of time because even if a more decent translator picks up a series down the road, they will often not go back and fix the hot mess that the other translator left the earlier chapters in, because its considered bad manners to "snipe" as you said. in fact many places like novelupdates enforce a retarded no sniping policy.
I recall a decade ago or so it was the wild west when it came to translations but somewhere along the way they realized it could be monitized out the ass with almost 0 effort and they somehow made it like a soulless corporate machine, complete with the corporate greed, but somehow without the corporation.
Yeah there is this weird sense of entitlement they people have where they think that just by modifying someone else's work slightly it's now their own. The worse behavior i see is in the manga and light novel fan translation scene where people seem to hold "claim" over a series to translate (that they don't own rights to) and will get super bitchy if someone "steals" it (probably because it makes them money). Some translators will even post advance chapters on their site or on patreon and then charge money to view it. And then its just machine translated garbage where they didn't even fix any of it to be readable. Then they will leave a story on a cliffhanger chapter deliberately and pretend to be busy to try and bait donations to do the chapter "early" which they then release immediately after as if it was already done beforehand. Sometime in the last 10 years or so, the fan translation scene became commercialized behind the scenes and now its become a scummy illegal business run by a bunch of people who clearly don't speak English. It's become the exact same thing it claims to be against.
TBF there are ALOT of women at comic cons because most of the cons have extended to have stuff about tv shows, movies, anime, etc. and they tend to bring in big celebs to draw in as many people as possible. And there is a large segment of women that use it as an excuse to cosplay and dress like a slut. You don't have to be a comic fan to go to comic cons anymore.
I'm pretty sure this series is actually from a Korean novel, so it wouldn't have the usual Japanese hateboner for the Church.
That said, I don't recall if it was the church or just the noble next door being a piece of shit, as I read it a number of years ago now. However I do distinctly remember they were pushing what sounded like the absolute worst of leftist talking points about how they HAD to have an open border to take everyone they could and couldn't turn anyone away even if they all starved from their own stupidity. The one character against this absolutely retarded policy was portrayed as being close minded and bigoted even by the MC who is supposed to be the voice of logic and reason (lol). The solution was equally retarded as they simply decided "we don't have enough to feed everyone, but we somehow have enough to feed a marching army strong enough to invade the territory next door and take it over for ourselves, which will somehow solve all the issues despite everyone running away from there because they don't have food either and we just increased the amount of people we have to feed. Oops".
Returner's Magic Should be Special
This series lost my interest (read the webtoon ages ago) during the arc where they end up in a simulation world where they were working for a territory that was struggling to keep everyone fed and crime down due to rampant unchecked immigration, and they treated the one person saying they should get rid of the immigrants before they all starve from lack of food as if she was a crazy racist.
Is your wife single?