Unless you can demonstrate how to separate what you classify as "absurd extremes" from your cultural context, I think it's fair to use any examples of stable, religiously upheld, prosperous cultures to criticize traditionalism for the sake of traditionalism.

Sounds like when you say "good old family values" you mean "the specific values I imagine my recent family to have had".

That's massively different to a lot, a LOT, of other people's family values.