I agree with you that the Protestant knee jerk response to the Catholic veneration of Mary was too extreme. Mary did not ask to be worshipped or venerated, or raised to the level of "co-redemptress" as some practitioners of Catholicism enthusiastically promoted. Mary held a special place in the redemption story, as the earthly instrument God used to bring His Son into the world. Without worshipping her, or seeing her as an "intermediary" between mortals and Christ, we still need to recognize her as another Saint in glory. When I was a Catholic years ago, we said our rosary frequently, and "Hail Mary's" dominated the ritual. Many Catholics still pray to Mary, as well as Jesus, but they feel that Mary should be petitioned to intervene on their behalf, and this is an unbiblical practice. We pray to God in the name of Jesus. We do not pray to Mary to ask Jesus for us. Prayers for the dead and to dead saints ought not be what Christians do. But this is an old issue, and the Catholic Church was never earnest about reforming, and abandoning unbiblical heresies. Soli Deo Gloria