I know that the Ashkenazi Conservative Jewish movement outside Israel is all "eat your kitniyot and be happy" after decades of the one in Israel adopting the 'when in Rome' of living among Sephardim and Mizrahi. But. BUT. I did it for one year after they made the change and never since. It just... it didn't feel like Pesach, you know? There wasn't enough of a sense of a change, of forgoing foods I regularly eat. I love bread and am currently baking bread at this very moment, but a week without it isn't all that and I don't eat pasta weekly anyway. I come from extremely secular but incredibly culturally-strong Ashkenazi stock; I am the kind of New York Jew who has aged out of cultural significance but used to dominate. I have to do what I always did. And then gripe about it afterwards because I am exactly that kind of Jew. :)