What if Francis the apostate did a complete about face and renounced all his errors and publicly begged for forgiveness. Then after sufficient penance he chose Ladislaus to help him in the restoration of the church. Now Ladislaus had no power himself but could recommend ideas to Francis, and as long as they where in line with Catholic tradition, Francis got it done. First they did the consecration of Russia with any remaining faithful bishop they could find. After that they went wild and kicked out all the commies inside the church, brought back the Holy Roman Empire, they crowned kings, and fulfilled every dream a traditional catholic could imagine. They even hung all the dark rulers of the world. after several years of work Francis and Ladislaus rebuilt Christendom more glorious than it had ever been. Francis even made
Ladislaus Defender of the faith. But now it was time for Ladislaus to go back to his day job because everything had been restored, Ladislaus had one more recommendation, He told Francis to get conditionaly re-ordained from priesthood to pope. Francis told Ladislaus I love you like a brother for helping me restore the church, But I am the pope and will not do that.
What would Ladislaus do?
Would he kiss his ring and say, its true you are the pope
Or would he remain the only sedevacantist left on the planet and a home aloner