It is not atypical of Bergoglio; most bishops, including Bergoglio, refuse to offer, or even allow, mass ad orientem, yet the lone bishop who enforces ad orientem as decided by the recent local synod of bishops, is forced to resign.
VC II never called for Mass ad populum; it's just another rotten fruit, like Holy Communion in the Paw and on the Hoof, altar girls, etc. that the modernists later introduced in the "spirit" of VC II.
Mass resistance: Syro-Malabar priests defy papal delegate’s deadline
The uniform mode, adopted by the Church’s synod in 2021, is a compromise between the Syro-Malabar Church’s ancient tradition, in which the priest looked east (ad orientem), and the emergence of a post-Vatican II Latin-influenced practice in some churches, where the priest faced the people throughout the liturgy (versus populum).