Is he weak, insincere, a closet trad, or is he really what we had hoped? An alternative view. Reflecting on the 'trumpine' links with Russia, I could not help but point to Trump's braggadocio about being the consummate "deal maker". Intrinsic to this type is "quid pro quo", right? An equivalence of power that - e.g., "US" back off Ukraine; "I" get business preferentials in Russia? If fits precisely with the "best deal maker ever". Relevance?
"Curial types" obviously do not operate on the "Jesus principle".  Aletrnative?  Pope Francis does not have an organized leverage sufficient to exact a "quid pro quo" with the curia and "curial" types.  It seems that he would have to become "them" to get reforms done. We deceive ourselves to think the Pope is "supreme authority" - in action.
Until Francis accepts that it is the "institution" that is in schism and risk it all, the status quo goes on. 
Then who would follow? How would it fold out? No grand design. White Catholics as in the US?