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That's why I wrote "(from Coffin)".

Ah, my bad.

Do Bennyvacantists truly think there was no Crisis in the Church during the reign of Pope Benedict? Why didn't they give up their Trad chapels and go back to their local parishes?

They probably did -- because they weren't really TRADS, didn't have any illicit chapels to begin with, and were only after the "Latin Mass" which Pope Benedict made much more available at their local parishes.

In short, Bennyvacantism is an INDULT phenomenon, and the logical result of the error of having any truck with the Conciliar Church, seeking permission for your birthright which is to attend the Tridentine Mass, nourish your Faith and/or save your soul.

The then Fr Ratzinger was a suited radical at V2, and while he did repent somewhat when he saw the disorder of student protest at the end of the sixties, his theology is still formed around V2. When he became Pope he did at least revise the ecuмenical meeting at Assisi so it was no longer a pagan prayer meeting, and he fixed ruled to defrock perv priests, which Francis temporarily stymied. I would say that diocesan traditionalists were a thing, variously using priests with the Bugnini indult to offer their private Mass which they happened to attend, priests who often assisted the SSPX. Fr Michael Cresswell was one who helped get the SSPX in Ireland off the ground. Fr Alan Wilders was another diocesan priest who helped the SSPX. Later he helped found St. Patrick's Academy, Islandeady, a boarding school in Mayo. When the diocesan traditional Mass resumed in Ireland in 1984, it was not a matter of a priest having to wrack his brain to recall to how offer the Mass for priests were offering it wherever a room could be hired. Some were SSPX, some friends of it, others diocesan or Order. That said, I don't think Patrick Coffin is a hardbitten, long in the tooth, diocesan trad, just a usual grifter.