You know, as head of the Signatura, Burke would be stuck in the daily grind at his desk, churning out legal decisions with 135 footnotes apiece, to be ignored just as the bishops almost universally ignored his ruling on the ineligibility of pro-abortion politicians to receive the Most Blessed Sacrament of Holy Communion.
But now as Cardinal Protector of the Knights of Malta, he's free to travel, speak, educate, organize, fire up the troops. He can travel worldwide, pitch straight to the lower clergy and the laity if he chooses.
In a perhaps ironic consequence, he has been untethered from the chains of his Curial desk. And the Knights of Malta have money: they can supply the airfares and also get his stuff published.
With that --- and the Holy Spirit --- what more could a prophet want?
Burke for Pope. Orate, fratres.