Certainly take and agree with your point. But I don't think it is the case that the canons are like sections of the criminal code, each of which is comparable to the ten commandments as embodying a "thou shalt not" proposition.

I believe a significant portion of canon law is more akin to Robert's Rules of Procedure, prescriptions about good governance in the church.  I don't even think that many of the Vatican moral prescription, such as all the sexual prohibitions, are even in canon law. Could be wrong; just an impression, not based on any study of canon law (not my cup of tea).