Orthodoxy does seem as if there are many rules, but when you realize it has existed for hundred and hundreds of years, mostly unchanged, you know that throughout the years it has picked up many customs and traditions that are a bit foreign to the ways we live now. Nothing is so onerous that it is undoable, it's just a culture. It is not Pharisaical, I dispute that. It is based in love. If all you see is rules in Orthodoxy, you have missed the point. Read the fathers and see what they say.