I'd say you're onto something there. Who needs to follow the teachings, when all you have to do is repent?! If you think you were born by the all loving and divine as a lowly a sinner, what can you do, but sin?

Who needs to work on anything when ultimately all you have to do is submit to the system?

IMO, it's best to focus on embodying the teachings of the great masters and drop the system organized around the dregs they left behind.

A short anecdote..

Duke Hwan and the Wheelwright

Taken from a text called "The Way of Chuang Tzu" as translated by the philosopher-monk Thomas Merton:

Duke Hwan of Khi,

First in his dynasty,

Sat under his canopy

Reading his philosophy;

And Phien the wheelwright

Was out in the yard

Making a wheel.

Phien laid aside

Hammer and chisel,

Climbed the steps,

And said to Duke Hwan:

"May I ask you , Lord,

What is this you are

Reading?"

The Duke said:

"The experts. The Authorities."

And Phien asked:

"Alive or Dead?"

"Dead a long time."

"Then," said the wheelwright,

"You are reading only

The dirt they left behind."

Then the Duke replied:

"What do you know about it?

You are only a wheelwright.

You had better give me a good explanation

Or else you must die."

The Wheelwright said:

"Let us look at the affair

From my point of view.

When I make wheels

If I go easy, they fall apart,

If I am too rough, they do not fit.

If I am neither too easy not too violent

They come out right. The work is what

I want it to be.

You cannot put this into words"

You just have to know how it is.

I cannot even tell my own son exactly how it is done,

And my own son cannot learn it from me.

So here I am, seventy years old,

Still making wheels!

The men of old

Took all they really knew

With them to the grave.

And so, Lord, what you are reading there

is only the dirt they left behind them."