Agreed - totally! In the Arch of NY if you threw out all of hte bad apples there would perhaps be less then 100 priests left......but they would be the ones worth keeping.
But you know what? They might have to work.......very hard.......long hours.......the way priests used to work. however i will say that they would not be over burdened. Because the good Catholics would make sure that they were few right, had clean clothes.......that clerical and menial talks were done for them, so all they had to do was to do what is theri job: to priest their people.
I gurantee you - there would be no problem. It would just mean that there would not necessarily be daily/Sunday mass all the time in every locale. But people would be willing to wait for it - with great joy and expectation, as thye would indeed be spiritually fed - if infrequently - by the ministrations of a few good priests!
"Would you decide to leave known child mollesters and killers on the list of babysitters for your children so that you would have a bigger list?"
Judging by his continued inaction in the face of a massive sodomite invasion of the sanctuary, the pope's answer to your question is "yes".