Well, what was started and what we ended up with are two different things.
To speak of "ending up" is premature. The present plateau, shall we call it, is a situation where those who are moving toward the Traditional Faith are under attack. I don't expect things to "end up" well for them, but it's not for any lack of trying on their part.
There is a dire shortage of genuine Catholic institutions of higher learning. Unless one wishes to go the TradGuy20 route and trade in all the books for barbells and workout gear, dismissive indifference to the plight of people who are, whether they yet realize it or not, inexorably moving in our direction is inappropriate.