Regarding universal salvation:
This pope has never encouraged a non-catholic to convert to the One, True Faith to my knowledge. He hasn’t done it with the atheist newspaper editor, nor with muslims at Lampedusa, nor his rabbi friend in Argentina. He even discouraged his evangelical friend, Tony Palmer, from his thoughts of converting to Catholicism. Unfortunately, Mr. Palmer has since died.
Doesn’t sound like somebody who believes in EENS.
Oh I agree with your conclusion regarding Francis and EENS as a whole. I was focusing just on his recent comments alone.