Since you’ve been under the impression that you’ve “heard nothing but good about Ratzinger,” perhaps you would be willing to become better informed. Then again, maybe not. But I’ll give it a try.
In 2001, Ratzinger approved as “valid” a Eucharisitc prayer which lacks the words of consecration. Criticism of that move has come from many voices, but there has not been any reversal or any papal decree in this controversial matter of 4 years’ standing.
Another “beastly” approval from his hands is that he’s approved a plan to have canonizations without any need for there having been miracles attributed to the intercession of the candidate. The affirmation by miracles of the work of God is of apostolic origin, used by Jesus Himself, and holds prominent place even in the Old Testament. But in spite of the traditional requirement of 4 miracles for canonization, John Paul II reduced it in 1983 (early in his pontificate) to only 2, and for martyrs, only one. Ratzinger apparently is urging him now to declare all miracles unnecessary for canonizations, in yet further defiance of tradition.
This amounts to the secularization and politicization of the very existence of saints in the minds of the Faithful. Subjectively speaking, the elimination of the special nature of sainthood destroys the veneration of saints, as then anyone can be thought of as a “saintly person” regardless of any objective verification by miraculous intervention.
At this rate, pretty soon EVERYBODY will be a saint, and the Scripture will be fulfilled: “And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them” (Apocalypse 13:7).
Yup. Not good.