Actually, it was not a surprise to me.
Being a leader in V2 (can't remember the proper name for the level of leadership that Ratzinger held) he was too married to the reform and was not going to accept a near wholesale repudiation of v2 and let them in.
Many forget that Ratzinger was brought up in the same Ressourcement theology of all the Reformers - a total abandonment of Aristotlian and Thomistic philosophy.
He had New Theology skin in the game where Francis, despite being the complete synthesis of Modernism, does not.
Being a leader in V2 (can't remember the proper name for the level of leadership that Ratzinger held) he was too married to the reform and was not going to accept a near wholesale repudiation of v2 and let them in.
Many forget that Ratzinger was brought up in the same Ressourcement theology of all the Reformers - a total abandonment of Aristotlian and Thomistic philosophy.
He had New Theology skin in the game where Francis, despite being the complete synthesis of Modernism, does not.