Bottom line:
Too many people have found themselves in your situation...abandoned by a spouse and divorced through no fault or desire of your own.
And most of those have no desire to play the Annulment Game. So they go off and remarry, and start attending some other Church, where they typically tithe.
THAT is the rub to the Vatican. Mass attendance and membership in the Church are cratering, which is hitting the collection basket in a big way.
They are desperate to bring those people back, along with their weekly contributions. THAT is what’s driving this IMHO.
I agree that is at least 75% of the reason the other 25% being those in the hierarchy who avowed Americanists, Modernists, or just titmice who are in reality no different than Luther who also claimed he was saving the "real" Church from the evil hierarchy by starting his own little club.
A few weeks ago I was looking through several books trying to match up some things and it seems to me decline in attendance has grown in nearly perfect lock step with the increase in the divorce rate. All the noise from heretics is just their misdirection campaign to hide the fact that they're contradicting Church Dogma and are therefore heretics.
That's the same "because we love the sheep" sort of misdirection Hesburgh used when he claimed he stole Notre Dame from the Church to make sure it was a better University to keep people from noticing that doing so would get him nice fat grants and endowments from the very same people who were funding Margaret Sanger's constant crusade against the Catholic Church and thirty years earlier had funded KKK anti-Catholic publications, rallies, and speaking tours.
Regards