Gosh, isn't it great to be out of the Fellay-led SSPX? Isn't it liberating not to care a nickle about anything Fellay or Schmidberger write or say? We need to count our blessings for having been delivered from this bunch!
First of all, I fully detect your sarcasm. As well as your main point.
I never once said I didn't care about anything +Fellay or Fr. Schmidberger had to say. So mocking us for "falling short of our original goals" (namely, ignoring the SSPX) is a bit off base, since that was never MY claim or goal to begin with.
To succeed in not-caring about the SSPX is far from a lofty, desirable goal. That would actually be quite callous and uncharitable, since
it would consist of "not caring" what happens to tens of thousands of Catholics. We're talking about letting the whole Traditional Catholic world go to Hell here! How can we be callous and unmoved by such events?
Sure, maybe a lot of the Catholics in question might not be as fervent, detached from the world, and/or well informed as you or I. But they are certainly Catholics and members of Christ's Mystical Body, even if they are objectively weaker than us (more slave to convenience, human respect, worldly amusements, etc.)
It doesn't seem charitable to me to focus 100% on our own little chapels and groups, and simply resign the rest of our fellow TRADITIONAL Catholics to the Evil One (talking about satan here).
No, I think there is still some measure of hope for a number of priests/laity in the SSPX, and even if there weren't, it would still behoove us to keep an eye on things. Like it or not, we Trads are, ultimately, in this mess together. It will affect us in some way (being more isolated, facing greater temptations and opposition from the world, etc.)
Any way you slice it, the demolition and downfall of the SSPX affects us all. By "us" I mean Traditional Catholics. We all have to live in this world. Being more isolated vs. the World will be that much harder for each of us.
Keep in mind that the SSPX is the 900 lb. gorilla in the Traditional Catholic world. I'd love to see some statistics, but I'm certain that the SSPX is #1 by a long shot. The #2 position is probably 1/10th the size, if that. The FSSP is already owned by Rome, so they don't count. They might be Catholic, but they're not Traditional Catholic (because they deny the right of Catholics to attend the Latin Mass without permission from Rome -- a basic tenet of Traditional Catholics).
So yes, the downfall of the SSPX is a big deal, and it would be not only uncharitable, but even
foolish to ignore it.