Yes I am aware of all that.
When you were a member of the Episcopal church, as is the case now, the church of Rome did not consider the Anglican branch of Christianity to be "Apostolic".
It is pie in the sky to think that it would have become different were it not for the insane leftists. The Evangelical, Biblically based Southern Hemisphere Church would not have acquiesed to many required beliefs, the silly "Marian" agreement not withstanding.
The Evangelicals (even those in this country) probably would not have signed on, but the "high" contingent (of which we were a part) almost certainly would have.
And that could well have eventually led to a split between "high" and "low" . . . along the lines of FiF . . . instead of the now impending split between "believers" and "heretics" . . .
But the fact remains that there was at one time a willingness on the part of Rome to reconsider the validity of the Apostolic Succession in the Anglican communion.
And despite your protestations, the fact that the conference which had been working on this matter for almost 3 decades was abruptly shelved after GC 2003 seems to me to be more than a coincidence.