There is a tendency to make up new prohibitions in the religious world. This leads to a situation where simple people that truly want to keep Torah have no way to discern what is real as opposed to what is added and made up out of thin air. Rav Nahman of Breslov addressed this problem [Le.M II 44]. But that does not seem to hinder people that are Breslov from the same sort of tendency.
The thing about this is that the extra emphasis on rituals has nothing todo with midot tovot [good character traits]. If good character -to be a mensch- a decent human being had nothing todo with Torah then maybe i would have little to complain about. But in fact midot tovot are "deuraita" commandments from the Torah a you can see in Sefer HaChinuch.
