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>A lot of Protestant doctrine is basically shedding the overly retarded parts of Catholicism but still leaving just enough to ostensibly remain "Christian".
You couldn't be more wrong. The Reformation was basically stripping all the ecumenical "Christian" influence yet still retaining the core New Testament doctrine and thus remaining "Christian" in that way. The Reformation was both rooted in Wycliffe and the Lollards, and the Hebrew studies movement during the Renaissance, which led to them rediscovering the Nazarenes, hence why it's a reform going back to pre-Roman Christianity. Look up Johann Reuchlin, his Hebrew studies would later lead to the Reformation itself.
Jesuits and the counter-Reformation on the other hand overplay the ecumenical doctrine, and that of the Greek and Latin fathers.