Why did Jesus caution his followers to “watch out . . . for the teaching of the Pharisees, what was so bad?
Matthew 16:12.
Then they grasped that he said to watch out, not for the leaven of the loaves, but for the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Is it possible for churches today to have Pharisaic teachings that run counter to what the bible says and what could these be?
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Yes, the Pharisees of Jesus day were a lot like the preachers of today that teach the traditions of men and not the truth of the Bible.
(Mark 7:1-4) 7 Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat their meal with defiled hands, that is, unwashed ones— 3 for the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands up to the elbow, holding fast the tradition of the men of former times, 4 and, when back from market, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves by sprinkling; and there are many other traditions that they have received to hold fast, baptisms of cups and pitchers and copper vessels;. . .
Some were all rules and relics and rosaries; others were all drab clothes, long faces, and petty traditional abstinences from wine or cards or the theatre. Both had in common their self-righteousness and the almost infinite distance between their actual outlook and anything the Enemy really is or commands. The wickedness of other religions was the really live doctrine in the religion of each; slander was its gospel and denigration its litany.
-- C.S. Lewis, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast"
Screwtape, in the above excerpt, is a fictional demon of Hell. (By "the Enemy" he means God.) Here, he is making the point that there is still a modern version of Pharisaism.
Besides these Pharisaic teachings of Lewis' time (the late 1950s), I'd add one more example: the tendency to worship Scripture, and therefore to treat as divine one's chosen interpretation of Scripture, as a dodge around actually acknowledging God.
Pharisees said they were justified by performing the ceremonies in the law of moses. In todays language that means that some of todays church members believe that they are spiritially better than others just bc they go to church on sunday
Whatever runs counter to "Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself", is against the law of the Spirit and doesn't support the spirit of the Law.
Just as you said they were teaching contrary to the bible....hellfire...trinity...divorce without proper reason...charging money for services....you name it they did it ...same today