You are over-looking the many other factors having to do with what was happening in the Church during that period of time.
The decline in vocations, church closures, incurred debts, etc. have their origins in other factors that are too important to overlook. To heap the blame for all these happenings onto one person doesn’t make good sense and is also a form of denial in itself, I would say.
Scapegoating Pope John Paul II for everything that was happening is not a balanced, factually honest assessment of those times.
>>Scapegoating Pope John Paul II for everything that was happening is not a balanced, factually honest assessment of those times.<<
Setting the responsibility on the person responsible is not scapegoating. He was charged to lead The Church.