He’s a Spaniard (like St Ignatius) and also Catalan from Majorca...an island that produced a huge number of the Franciscan and other missionaries who converted the New World (or the Spanish possessions, at any rate, including Florida).
He was orthodox but timid. I think nothing in his scholarly background had prepared him to deal with a Pope who was not supportive of orthodoxy, and he really didn’t know what to do.
But he’s a Spaniard and they’re proud and I think he felt used. This is a very brave thing to do now. He is essentially showing that he won’t participate in the Synod because nothing about it will be orthodox teaching and he doesn’t want to be used again to make people believe that it is.
Servility is a vice, not a virtue. This, however, is generally not explained in detail in priestly training, because servility is so useful. Rather, it is often confounded with obedience.
That goes triple in the Jesuits. Or as the French would say, tres mal.