"It is not reason, as we have sometimes done, to discard our hymnody and liturgy or to employ desperate and cringeworthy gimmicks."

I'm glad you said, "... have sometimes done, ..." because innovative additions to worship services do not automatically equate with, "...desperate and cringeworthy gimmicks."

How would you evaluate Luther's German Mass?
He changed thousand years old liturgical settings and singing.