You have it exactly right, Rock.  Shame on those who have to pull this off to the battle of left vs right.  Typical of JayE.  The clear intention of those appointed as cardinals by Pope Francis is so that the representation of the Universal Church is clear at all levels and in all structures of the Church.  The imbalance of European cardinals - particularly those Italian - kept the Church euro-centric in its entirety, even with a Pole and a German as popes in the modern era.  The entire church is swinging to the global south in membership and clergy/religious, and still the few trads here need to stay trapped in their ideological battles.  Fine - they will die doing so, while the rest of the real Church continues its lurching struggle forward in the road to meeting Christ at the end.