Well, you’re right...if those Popes were saints...if WE were saints...then maybe we wouldn’t have gotten ourselves into this mess in the first place.
I find it thoroughly consistent to be a) critical of the Catholic hierarchy of that era for letting it get so bad, and b) critical of the Reformers for applying exactly the wrong medicine to fix it.
What was really needed was more along the lines of the Counter Reformation, which came a bit too late.
We are the saints!
: )
And from what little I know, I agree, too little, too late to avoid the schism.