Spaces in a cluttered mind

Reform doesn't see halacha as binding, but halacha still informs it's teshuvot - and it's members still view Jewish law as important to informing practice. Reform is just focused on individualized practice, as far as doing what is meaningful - rather than enforcement of collective communal observance.

A valid criticism would be that the Reform movement completely fails in it's duty to teach observance of halacha, so that people can make informed choices about what they choose not to observe and why.

Enlightenment era inspirations aside, the Reform movement has seen a shift back toward interest by some folks there in taking on more traditional observance practices - however, folks who do are often stymied by the lack of support they find in the Reform community so they do what they can on their own or find a more observant community to join that accepts them.

Reform doesn't see itself as freed from the law, though - which is why I disagree with the take here. Reform Jews do absolutely have a responsibility to engage with mitzvot - the emphasis is just placed on personal practice and meaningfulness, not communally enforced orthopraxis.

it is antisemitic to automatically assume that being a zionist — defined as the belief that jews have a right to self determination in their ancestral homeland — makes someone a bad nasty evil genocidal bloodthirsty killer actually

The siddur contains both weekday and shabbat liturgy, which was surprising because in my (admittedly limited) experience with Reform I never encountered a weekday minyan or anything of that sort, so I'm kind of curious if anyone actually uses the weekday liturgy part of it to daven.

There were a bunch of verses omitted from various prayers and tehillim and I'm not sure why. Does anyone know why?

Ultimately it comes down to differences in a.) how the reform movement prioritizes a lack of repetitiveness in daily prayer (we said it once, why say it again?), and b.) some differences in what they choose to prioritize from a theological perspective. Lots of things about Reform practice are left up to the individual practitioner, and I know a bunch of people who are Reform but use orthodox or conservative siddurim at home for daily prayer.

(Keep in mind this is what I know of U.S. Reform not the UK/Canadian/Australian branches of the movement).

Ultimately as someone who converted in the Reform movement I do have an appreciation for the brevity of services but honestly wish they had left the original liturgy intact with the option to skip stuff that doesn't align with your personal practice or beliefs, or to substitute an optional alternative blessing. I get the desire for egalitarianism but at the same time like... it's ok to wrestle with the parts of liturgy and belief that you don't like or agree with.

Some shuls in large cities do have daily or semi-daily minyanim. However lots of shuls are in places without them because their congregations are too small to support that.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

Like clockwork, someone will eschew Christianity, and go through a long drawn out phase where they evangelize their newfound atheism and try to get others to join them. It is just as annoying as when Christians do it. They can't fathom that not everyone has the same experiences as them or that people don't possess the same religious traumas because they assume Christianity is the default for all religious belief.