Yes, it does. I have to wonder if anyone else in the world really cares that much :-). I've seen an occasional two- or three-paragraph excerpt from Balthasar, but never purchased a book ... and I'm a fairly serious consumer of theological literature, compared to the rest of the world.
It reminds me of the saying about academic battles, "The wars are so vicious because the stakes are so small."
LOL!
As a refugee from Academe, I can say that seems to be a true saying.
Von Balthasar wrote some great things, particularly about the Church. I liked two of them, Heart of the World and The Office of Peter, in particular.
I don't care much for the visionary, Adrienne Speyer, who was his inspiration for some of his more radical ideas, though. One of the problems with von Balthasar is that he moves back and forth between being a solid (and extremely wordy and detailed!) German theologian and being a mystic. There is the famous phrase that mysticism "begins in mist and ends in schism," and it is certainly true that some of his more "mystical" things may not be great doctrinal expressions. But many of his other works are really worth reading.
Pick up his book on the Creed. It's short and wonderful!