I more see it as people putting themselves between you and God, and often charging a service fee when you can just connect directly without any issue.
In our church we tell ourselves not to drink water downriver. Go to the source and drink at the well. Personal revelation, general revelation are the order of the day and should be in any real religion.
God doesn't "provide religious service"; this is a total misunderstanding of both God and religion.
God, in any monotheist religion, is the manifestation, and source, of all that is Good. There are many human institutions who interpret God's works and intent, but God is God.
A better analogy is God being the fundamental binary code on which everything is based (or even the physical chips in which available commands are embedded) while religions are the various higher level programming languages that provide different interpretations depending on the situation.
But, as any assembly programmer could tell you, there are different processors to choose from with different strengths and weaknesses, and thus can't be the ultimate Good.
It's true that no religion will *prevent* you from establishing a personal relationship with the Living God, but some hinder more than they help, notably the Abrahamic four (judaism christianity islam and communism).
When you belong to a group where the condition for being accepted is holding the same ideas, that group is a circlejerk preserving falsehoods through a community with a low bar for entry. It's a place for lonely people to be accepted despite lacking personal merit.
If a religion deserves to survive, its adherents will reproduce faster than other worldviews. Religion will evolve into more fertile memeplexes over time, regardless of how we feel about it.