Forcing a choice on fence sitters is an issue that affects a relatively small number of Catholics and is limited to within the Church. There are splits within religious groups all the time. They affect a limited number of people. If Francis wants his ruling to have global influence, it needs to have much more at stake than yet another religious split. A full on ban of the Latin Mass would require the support of the globalists and the elite, meaning, the RSP as Bp. W. calls them. It would need power of law on the multinational and global scale to have a truly global impact, as in, attendance at Latin Mass at risk of your freedom, your money, your ability to function in society, and ultimately, your life. He doesn’t (yet) possess such power to enact life and death laws. A ban on diocesan based TLM will have no effect on me. Many traditionalists already hear Mass and receive Sacraments outside the official n.o. structure. Excommunicating trads who are not part of the official diocesan system is like getting fired from a job you don’t hold, or being expelled from a school you don’t attend. Meaningless.