These are Vatican bureaucrats attempting to pull back on practices of 10, 15, and 25 years. And meeting significant resistance, apparently.
BTW, the progress of the Church will not be impeded by your unhappiness with the new regulations. Get ready now.
I sleep comfortably in the knowledge that the Vatican will issue "guidelines" but nothing that will bind bishops one way or another.
Can't risk wholesale disobedience, which the "shot over the bow" this week from prelates portends.