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You need to understand the situation better. Try pondering this quote from Cardinal Ratzinger:

"In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith, and that also applies to the liturgy. It is not "manufactured" by the authorities. Even the pope can only be a humble servant of its lawful development and abiding integrity and identity. Here again, as with the questions of icons and sacred music, we come up against the special path trod by the West as opposed to the East. And here again is it true that this special path, which finds space for freedom and historical development, must not be condemned wholesale. However, it would lead to the breaking up of the foundations of Christian identity if the fundamental intuitions of the East, which are the fundamental intuitions of the early Church, were abandoned. The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition. Still less is any kind of general "freedom" of manufacture, degenerating into spontaneous improvisation, compatible with the essence of faith and liturgy. The greatness of the liturgy depends — we shall have to repeat this frequently — on its unspontaneity (Unbeliebigkeit)."

THE POPE IS BOUND TO THE TRADITION OF FAITH. You need to ponder these words. You have been led to believe the pope is the faith. He is not.

ultima, love ya but it drives me crazy when you make generalizations like this: "You have been led to believe the pope is the faith." In fact, I believe this statement would have been more true pre Vatican II and probably quite common in my grandparents (and their's before them) day.

Saying something like that effectively puts you in the drivers seat, is snobbish and presumptuous and something that has been fully formulated in your own mind with no evidence provided to support the statement whatsoever.

You disagree with the validity of Vatican II, particularly the Mass of Paul VI.

The Church is not stagnant.