Of course Satan wants to rid the world of the True Pope who is restricting the plan of this evil one, his Antichrist who is working for evil that is going on right now BIG TIME. Generating the Great Apostasy. The enemy has reduced The Church to an era of having no visible head on earth, Christ who IS THE CHURCH, the Church being Christ we are not without a head who is Christ the Church. He is allowing this absence of a Pope for a short time, in God's eyes, to see the fulfillment of prophecy.
See quote from Pope Pius X - 1903 "9. Now the way to reach Christ is not hard to find: it is the Church. Rightly does Chrysostom inculcate: “The Church is thy hope, the Church is thy salvation, the Church is thy refuge.” (“Hom. de capto Euthropio,” n. 6.) It was for this that Christ founded it, gaining it at the price of His blood, and made it the depositary of His doctrine and His laws, bestowing upon it at the same time an inexhaustible treasury of graces for the sanctification and salvation of men."