In no particular order yet
Masons wrote the Constitution and founding docs etc so you can't say they were ALWAYS bad, but something went wrong somewhere. I think there are subgroups within masonry, not different rites but different groups within them that perhaps are not all loyal to the goals of masonry. So I think the lodge was infiltrated at some point. JBS has a YT playlist that many of the founding fathers were on both sides of the fence even then but you cant argue with their results. We'd all be in camps if not for them, as in Europe, China, AUS, USSR.