In the eyes of outsiders it seems like the sedevacantist view could be seen as a desperate attempt to save a defected Church.
How could a Church founded by Christ transform into an anti-church?
It was prophesized. The apostel Paul speaks about it in 2 Thess 2. The apostel John speaks about it, the keyword is Antichrist. Our Lord speaks about it in Mt 24,15 (and Lk and Mk). A great apostasy is expected. And a great apostasy has happened.
And only a few enlightened faithful be able to realize it?
Yes. Antichrist will deceive. Whether we're at the end now or not yet. In the end Antichrist will deceive. There will be only a scattered handful of faithful left. Will the Lord find faith when he returns? Will the time have to be shortened to prevent that even the elect will be deceived, if that was possible?
Christ would then have allowed 99.9% of his faithful to be deceived.
Not true. A Church full of tares, and these are allowed to be deceived. The elect can't be deceived.
Our Lord allowed most Jєωs experience a true Shoah in A.D. 70. At the end it's our turn, a spritual Shoah.
It would also set a precedent that at any time Christ's Church could morph into an anti-church in the future.
True. If it has morphed, it could well morph again in the future. On the other hand only one great apostasy is predicted.
In addition, it would set a precedent that we can't know if a claimant/ occupant of the chair of Peter is a true pope without each of us privately discerning whether the claimant spoke public heresy.
True. The scattered flock will continue to scatter and cease to exist if Our Lord won't come soon.
I think, the robber council of the 1960s was the abomination of desolation (Mt 24,15) and the true mass was abolished in 1969*. Antichrist is not a single person, but the hosts of heretics destroying the Church (see St. John Chrysostom, Opus Imperfectum , homily XLIX). Man sits in the temple and acts as if he was God. The abomination is the sign that the Lord is coming. The parable of the fig tree teaches that the generation which saw the abomination will not pass before Our Lord returns.
I am human, I may err. But then, I would have to reject the condemned modernists anyway.
*) From the rooftops:
"So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'we haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty-nine'"