I think these Australian bishops (from all I've read) have been honest, forthright, sincerely apologetic and genuinely repentant for the system they inherited and inhabited without necessarily know its true scope until this inquiry.  Go back a few years to the real-time horrors of Pell & friends' administrations, and your remarks are valid.  The fact of SO many related victim suicides (actually ONE suicide is more than enough) shows the very real evil.  Hopefully this will be a new beginning (if there are any Catholics remaining in Australia).