I that this pope has no good will toward protestants at all. We are defective folks gathered in what are not really churches according to him.
Maybe JPII believed the same, but was smart enough to keep his mouth shut about it. But this guy is no JPII.
As far as I’m concerned, he’s the worst kind of hyper-denominationalist.
I see his statement as more of an attempt to bring wayward Catholics back into the fold. There are (liberal, V2) priests that believe there is no difference between being a Catholic versus not being one.
I think you are judging him unfairly when you say he has no good will towards Prots. I think he is trying to rein in his own sheep, which as you know, there are some troublesome and highly visible members.
We frequently read things as to be aimed at us, whereas sometimes/frequently they are not.