Then why not go straight to the source? Druidism and various indo british pagan organisations are quite big and organised. They even got their claim on stonehenge rectified. No need to create a watered down offshoot. Unless of course to sell bogus and dreams.
Well for one, we dont know squat about the druids. 99% of modern-day Druidism is just re-packaged and re-themed neo-paganism anyway, which it itself was a movement largely sparked from Wicca....so, why not just go back to the source instead of messing with watered down neo-druidry?
-and let's be perfectly fair, if we were left to the source materials at the time we'd probably end up with a system with just as many historical and cultural issues as Wicca. It very much was a product of its time.
Gardner gets a lot of flak for "making it all up" but though he heavily reformed what was handed to him, he tells you in his Witchcraft Today, that he hadn't a clue were any of it came from. He suspected parts of it came from or were influenced by Crowley, but simply didn't know enough of Crowley's material to prove it. Gardner was initiated into a coven, though it was far from ancient. The coven was a remnant of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry and it's all pretty clear except for one major mystery: of all the things they could of claimed to be in their reformation, why witches?
In fact, I'd say the worst thing to ever happen to Wicca was being called Wicca, being called witchcraft. I get they were romanticists of pre-Christian religion but the word witch started as a regional word for Christian cunningfolk and does not go back to pre-Christian religion.
Gardner also did a disservice to Strega, which is now equivocated with witchcraft because of him. Let's be honest Gardner was influenced more of Strega than actual European folk traditions. He took Strega, argued Italian "witches" being in Italy would of occasionally stumbled upon grimoires, or that said tomes were just reworked neopagan works.
Aradia isn't British, and he forced her into a bit of a marriage with Cernunnos but I suppose the ethics of that aside, a marriage makes sense if you are blending Strega and Celtic lore. It certainly caught the attention of Lady Circe (not the ancient one) and Lord Sariel who used Wicca as well as [another] certain firm of Luciferian tradition at the time to turn the Stregan fam-trad tradition she claimed into a covened tradition. I mean I get the guy was on the Isle of man but if he had ditched Cernunnos and called his stuff ceremonial Strega or group Strega maybe it would still be taken seriously...maybe, depending on how those practicing signature would of received it.
The second worst thing to happen to Wicca was that bloody-aweful wheel of the year. Yeah I know, there's a strong case to be made for the commercialization of Wicca being the first thing but I'm just not sure that would of happened with the different branding.
So there's plenty to criticize Wicca for, we don't to go out of our way to put people down. Although I don't think the assessment of it being for white people who don't like culturally closed practices is fair. Having a personal matron and patron wasn't originally a thing in Wicca as you practiced the deities of your tradition and you had to be initiated, thus the practice was closed in that way, before even knowing who they were. At the same time if we are of the mindset that these deities have free-will, who they work with is their choice not ours. If you are contacting an entity from another culture without appropriating closed methods to do so and aren't pushing your UPG of the experience upon the culture, religion or group...I don't see the problem. Again, the WoY is a much bigger issue in that regard.
I'll also come right out and say it...a cunningfolk tradition using a modified Wiccan frame rite for group work would be amazing. Have the Goddess be The Sophia and the God the Logos with the Drighten being the father/divine parent...id be all over helping that get started even if I already have my praxis- because I'm sick and tired of seeing people missaprooriate Appalachian practices as witchcraft. Yeah, I said it.