Broken chord

Dirty finger not intended. This is how they play E chord with the two lower strings open and they do this with the A and the B chords. Drives me crazy especially since the guitar is the main rhythm instrument in the church , so instead of adding flavor to the music, the droning two lower string confuses the singers. This is good if there are other guitars playing conventional chords, but if there's none, its quite irritating.

I am having problems with the 9th chord. I am talking about guitar chord that does not contain the third note, and instead of the the third, guitar players replaced it with the second or the 9th. Guitar players in the church especially the youth like to use this chord because of what they see on Hillsong videos. I mean they think it was a cool way of playing the guitar.

I have tried explaining to these guitarist that removing the third note and replacing it with the second makes it difficult to sing and there's that droning sound of an open string playing with the bar or something. So, I kept telling them, don't play that kind of chording because its not cool, you are giving me head aches and you are abusing the minor 9th. But instead of listening, they kept using the chord even on songs that do not need them. I mean, popular and simple songs do not require broken chords.