It is a wonderful way to close out the prior liturgical year and is a reminder that Christ lives and reigns for all eternity.
Although a wonderful sentiment, this is not what Pius XI had in mind. Pius XI intent was to reinforce Traditional Catholic teaching that ALL men are subject to Christ the King..here and now. As the 2014 link in the OP states:
Pius XIs intention, as can be gleaned from n. 29, is to emphasize the glory of Christ as terminus of His earthly mission, a glory and mission visible and perpetuated in history by the saints. Hence the feast falls shortly before the Feast of All Saints, to emphasize that what Christ inaugurated in His own person before ascending in glory, the saints then instantiate and carry further in human society, culture, and nations. It is a feast primarily about celebrating Christs ongoing kingship over all reality, including this present world, where the Church must fight for the recognition of His rights, the actual extension of His dominion to all domains, individual and social.
It is not surprising that Paul VI changed the timing and the focus to more closely align with the false ecumenical teachings of Vatican II rather than Traditional Catholic teaching. Also from the 2014 link:
From this vantage, which certainly does not sound like the language of Dignitatis Humanae [Vatican II] or the postconciliar diplomacy of the Church, it is hard to resist thinking that the eschatological perspective betrays weak knees before the challenge of modern secularization, as well as hesitation about the perceived triumphalism of the earlier papal social teaching. In other words, the kingship of Christ is palatable and proclaimable so long as its realization comes at the end of time, and does not impinge too much on the political and social order right nowor on the Churchs responsibility to convert the nations, invigorate their cultures, and transform their laws by the light of the Faith. This suspicion is confirmed by an examination of changes made to the liturgy for this feast, where direct references to Christs kingship over States and rulers have been suppressed, as Michael Davies documents in The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty (Long Prairie, MN: The Neumann Press, 1992), 243-51.
The post-Vatican II church has no desire to proclaim the true Catholic teaching of the Social Kingship of Christ. That teaching is not PC. It's not ecumenical. So it moved the date and changed the focus of the Feast Day. The only thing that shocks me is that it still exists.