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Bp. Z has his reasons why he doesn't want to plaster everything all over the Internet, and intelligence/prudence has a lot to do with it.

You haven't lived the life of a Traditional bishop trying to build up the Church and preserve Tradition and the sacraments. There are challenges and obstacles you couldn't imagine -- ignorance is bliss.

It all seems so simple to you. A lot of us might THINK we know what to do, what should be done, like it's all cut-and-dried simple and easy. But it's easy to back-seat drive, Monday morning quarterback the situation, when you aren't involved yourself.

Strictly speaking, you (and others) have no clue what challenges Bp. Z faces on a daily basis.

Yes, people somehow believe that the clergy are required to broadcast everything from the rooftops ... and appeal to things needing to be made "public" and where they shouldn't be done "in secret" ... but the reality of it is that these calls are motivated by a feeling of being "left out", not being "in the inner circle" ... and just a general need to know related to what animates the vice of gossip, where they have "itchy ears".

+Willamson and +Vigano have been blasted for not publicizing his conditional consecration, and were denounced for keeping it "secret".

So, people also don't have the right definiton of "secret", since ... if anyone went and asked +Williamson, or +Faure, or Chazal (the 3 I've seen respond), they would all tell them, "yes, the conditoinal consecration occurred."  See, that's not "secret".  There never has been some requirement in Canon Law to post something on X or JewTube ... or, back in the day, in the newspaper, in order for it not to be "secret".  Now, behind the Iron Curtain, bishops were often commanded to keep it REALLY secret, where nobody knew except the consecrator and consecrand.  Bishop Williamson did keep a couple of his actually secret ... but only for a time.

There are prudential reasons why certain considerations would outweigh some fictional "right" that every busybody gossip on "CathInfo" has to know about certain things.  Yes, if you are impacted, i.e. served by a priest who was ordained by, say, +Vigano ... then absolutely you have a right to know that +Vigano was conditionally consecrated, and I'm sure if that were the case, they would tell you.  But why does Aunt Helen living on Podunk Iowa have ANY "need to know", much less "right" to know?

... I know just how much "studied Spanish" means, and what it doesn't mean

LOL ... THIS^ , except that he "studied" French, but then there's a third tier of "possesses some knowledge of Spanish" (... from watching "Dora the Explorer" cartoons?)  I don't intend to poke fun at him, but just want to point out the strangeness of this, where it's almost embarrassion, since there's a tension between the old SSPX emphasis on polyglot bishops / superiors, where they feel the need to list the languages, but then are pressed into somehow exaggerating Father's proficiency.

I also STUDIED:  Italian, German, French (took college classes in all 3) ... and, while I imagine I could pick them up quickly largely due to fluently reading Latin ... I could not "get by" in any of those 3.  I went to Rome once and used my "Collins Gem" dictionary here and there (once to interrogate a Swiss guard) ... "dove posso havere biglietti per l'udienza del Santo Padre", and then when my flight to pick up the final leg to Rome was delayed and I ended up in Paris, I said "Je ne parle pas francais" ... and that's been about it, yet I certainly "STUDIED" those languages, 35 years ago in college.

I have been saying this for years, however, that if the Modernists wanted to infiltrate the SSPX ... and there's no doubt but that they have done so, they need only send in a bright young man who fluently speaks 3 languages, and he's guaranteed "Superior" within a few years, provided he's adquately obsequious to the current regime ... which of course they're trained to do.  That has always been well known.  I myself had been tapped to go to Econe for the theology years ... since I knew/know Latin, ancient Greek, (some) Biblical Hebrew, English, Hungarian ... and "studied" French, Italian, and German.  I do also possess some knowledge of Spanish (since I still remeber how to count to "10" in Spanish from having watched "Sesame Street" ... although you can probably butcher a combo of Italian and Latin and come close).  Having heard various horror stories about Econe, however, at least as far as American sensibilities are concerned, I was actually plotting ways to get out of having to go.