That's probably just because their hopes of a "recognition" have dimmed. You'll notice that when they're closing in on an agreement with Rome, their rhetoric softens, but when the talks break down, they magically become more anti-Vatican II again.
There might be a bit of this, but they're not re-stocking their bookstores with "controversial" titles during the less-hopeful periods. Or bringing +Williamson back into the SSPX during those periods. See what I'm getting at? There are many permanent changes that have been made, to make the SSPX more like the FSSP.
That is what I have a problem with. The world already HAS an FSSP for Catholics who prefer or need that solution to the Crisis to follow their conscience. People like ME, however, need the old SSPX position. It's not fair to us, who are following our conscience, to have that option taken away.
I saw nothing wrong with the SSPX in the 80's, 90's, and 00's. I'm sure it wasn't perfect (as human beings were involved) but there were no fundamental, widespread, or problems from-the-top, from the organization itself, as there are today.
If the SSPX hadn't changed, you would have had priests disobeying and being clever during the COVID hoax. Saying Mass "off the grid", maybe at alternate locations, etc. No masks. Avoiding government oversight and "contact tracing" by going off the grid yourself if need be. Oh, and all the priests would have been preaching against the hoax AND the "vaccine". Because priests with a wartime, crisis, or catacombs mentality would have easily dealt with the recent authoritarian measures. It's only those trying to play Fifties Parish (HINT: There was no Crisis in the Church in the 1950s) that are going to have a problem.
In St. Marys, an SSPX priest said, "I got the (covid) vaccine. And you should get it." That tells me everything I need to know. He might as well tell his parish to 6uild 6ack 6etter, because he's helping push population control, the Great Reset, and world communist dictatorship. Wittingly or not, he's an ally of the Bond villain Klaus Schwab!