Schoenborn is a loose cannon and everyone knows it. Not a chance he’ll be pope until pigs start flying.
The odds aren’t in my favor. However, my take is that he is young, a polyglot, a “real” aristocrat, both an insider and outsider, and belongs to groups most in the spotlight:
Congregations: for the Doctrine of the Faith; for the Oriental Churches; for Catholic Education;
Pontifical Councils: for Culture; for Promoting New Evangelization;
Special Council for Europe of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.
Just to name a few things...
Schoenborn has also done an awful job of keeping ecclesiastical revolutionaries at bay in Austria.