Victor,
To answer your question direction, I suspect that at least some of those great minds may well be in female bodies...

I think Vatican II generated a great deal of excitement about what could be in the church.  And just as quickly as that hope was kindled, it was quashed while the old guard worked to buy time so that they could control the direction of whatever may have sprung from the Council.  The end result is that the younger generation of potential seminarians have grown up in a world wherein what was valued in the church was NOT that hope triggered by Vatican II, but by Machiavellian maneuvers to undo Vatican II, to and to rebuild the power of the clergy.  As such, I'm not at all surprised that what we've seen now for a few decades, are young men drawn by THOSE kinds of antics.  These guys have likely never experienced the kind of hope so many of us felt during and after Vatican II.