Well yeah. There's a reason why he was selected. I will, until my dying breath, be convinced that he was Francis's hand-picked successor. He's Anglophone Francis. In every way.
100% agreed. Bergoglio plucked this guy out of nowhere, and I believe that the REASON he was chosen was because he was best situated to pull off the next steps in the dialectic.
While he's a flaming Modernist, he also has very little past history, was a mystery man in a lot of ways, as per Verrechio's research. So while Modernist, he could pull off the perception of "Well, he might be more Traddie", and then create the blend of Jorge and Ratz, the Hegelian synthesis, as it were.