No, it's not better. I'm asking about an official policy for the SSPX, or a quote from +ABL. Not a personal experience.
Yes, this was the OFFICIAL policy at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary. You clearly had no connection to the Society in those days or you would know this. Plus, you what a written policy or statement. That was not how things worked back then. 🤦♂️
I suspect that were thd SSPX is return to the behaviours and attitudes of its priests, seminarians, religious, and laity as they were in the 1980s, you would speed off to the FSSP or ICK.