I agree with this article... it is too easy to focus on,  and complain about,  what hasn't yet been accomplished with an intractable Vatican culture,  and not see positive changes that are being accomplished... the slow long-game in process.   Permanent changes come from the slow,  difficult process of persuasion and changing hearts (and gradually the structure),  and not taking an authoritarian strategy that the hard-hearted can just wait out while looking toward a new pope of their liking.   As one Benedictine abbot said,  this is a "dinosaur church" and the "trick is learning to dance with the dinosaur," as he wrote in his book on the subject.  

Vatican politics and resistance to change are nothing short of mind-bending.   I'm personally praying that Pope Francis will have many more healthy years to bend the arc toward justice and mercy in the Church.  The naysayers will continue to complain and twist in the wind no matter what...  it's human nature.