After just seeing so many articles of people being sad I really just have to say the pope was an asshole. You don’t even have to do good research to see that this guy and his administration was still hiding pedophiles, hating gay people, and generally being a jerk all while pretending he was better than everyone else. The only thing he did was say he loved everyone and be a nice guy on camera which literally anyone could pretend to do. Meanwhile his administration was just more of the same shit. Just creating some counterpoint to the nonsense narrative I keep seeing.
I would argue that, within the scope of the Vatican, he, by himself was maybe as good a person as can exist within an organization at that level.
The trick is that the rest of the machinations and people in the Vatican are absolutely not good people and they clearly worked to “reign him in” (to their views) as his health worsened.