As recently as about 10 days ago Bishop Williamson believed that a statement made by BpF in mid-March opened the eyes of many as to what exactly was going on between BpF (and his cohorts) and Rome. I personally cannot place that mid-March statement of BpF.
Again, I personally doubt that even this eleventh hour realization by many that BpF wants to sell-out to Rome will not prevent the deed from going ahead. BpF has now made use of his key men - Schmidberger, Wailliez, Vernoy, Pfluger, Rosatnd ( and even Couture) - to justify the deal.
That there has been an eleventh hour realization is a fact. Some priests have told the faithful that they have been kept in the dark, while others are circulating the comments of BpF's "link" men.