I don't think this is the case. He envisioned a hybrid rite where far more of the TLM would be grafted into the Novus Ordo, especially ad orientem for the priest. He accomplished very little of what he hoped and what is desperately needful in this regard. Read his books on the liturgy.
Well, he had his opportunities. I don't know why he did or didn't do whatever he did or didn't do. There were other things that surprised me during the papacy of Benedict XVI. I remember the forceful letter he wrote to the American bishops, transmitted through McCarrick, that he wrote as head of the CDF. But as pope, we saw no follow-through on the substance of that letter.
Perhaps he was constrained by factors out of our sight. Perhaps his mind or heart shifted in some way.
So, what Cardinal Ratzinger wrote that Pope Benedict XVI did not implement at least raises the question of whether his views had shifted to one degree or other.
Nonetheless, if it were up to me, the Mass would be said ad orientam. This is an obvious change.
Preferring the new rite to the old AS IT IS ACTUALLY PRACTICED neither means that one thinks the new rite is just right, nor that the old rite is bad or that those who adhere to it deserve any sort of opprobrium merely for that adherence.
But vice versa, too.
In my own thinking, I would prefer a Mass closer to the old rite (having read the text of the old rite), in the vernacular, spoken aloud, with the congregation providing the responses.
In multi-ethnic parishes where no vernacular language predominated, I'd pretty much require the Mass in Latin.
But, I don't want to go to Mass and not be able to hear what the priest is saying. I love the prayers of the Mass, and I love to hear them out loud. I especially love to hear the beautiful words of the Eucharistic Prayer, especially if I am fortunate enough that the priest uses the first Eucharistic Prayer. Perhaps I emphasize too much the psychological experience of it, but I find listening to it to be profoundly affecting.
As the old rite is apparently typically said sotto voce, I would dearly miss that.
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