I believe it is highly likely that Cardinal Siri was elected initially, then made to stand down, then made to acknowledge the VII Popes and Mass. Most of the issues lay with the desire to pin an entire alternate Papacy on this man, when his own public actions do not allow for it. I think he is a very honorable figure, don't get me wrong. There is just too much of an urge to create something out of nothing. The Siri Thesis, similar to the Benedict Option, creates Popes so unimaginably subservient to the point of betrayal that the very impetus for their existence is destroyed, given everything we know now, a posteriori. We are all under siege and there is no easy out. All I know, hope and pray for is the promised top-down solution.