Francis is a Jesuit, and thus "almost by definition" neither "intellectually loose and sloppy" nor "too clever by half." 

I recently heard a story from the recent Jesuit General Congregation, the gathering in which they elect a new general and lay out guidelines for their future efforts. Francis was invited and came. He was asked for concrete guidance, but he pointedly refused that request. Subsequently the gathering fell into some heavy intellectual disputation, before settling down to a process of "group discernment of Spirits," code from the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius for letting the Spirit become their source for the concrete guidance Francis as pope had refused to give his fellow Jesuits. 

Francis is steadfastly refusing to shout from the roof tops the bits of tradition that traditionalists want him to emphasize like JP2 and B16 so they can use those papal shouts to put down progressive voices.  Francis message is the same as to the Jesuits...hear the Spirit for yourselves.