I find it humorous and ironic that some of the ones calling out "elitism" in T.O. Lodges are also posting their disdain for the way Widow's Sons look in another thread.
Personally, I'm on Chapter 13 of Cliff Porter's book and so far everything I've read sounds very impressive and along the lines of what I thought Freemasonry would be.
Cliff is one of the biggest proponents of the TO style lodge and one of the founders of E198. One of the problems, and I am guilty of this too, is that some TO Masons have a tendency of being very vocal and enthusiastic about the things going on in lodge and the craft in general. I think this enthusiasm can be viewed as arrogance or elitism and we've got to guard against that. This is just such exciting stuff!!!