This is good news, but aren’t people seeing what they want to see here? We can hardly pretend that the Pontifical Council for the Laity is in any way comparable to the Congregation for Bishops. The former is only concerned with assisting the Holy Father in his dealing with the laity, their various movements and their collective contributions generally. The latter has direct and immediate influence, if not quite control, over the selection of bishops. And this is to ignore that congregations are simply more powerful to begin with, having executive power whereas pontifical councils do not. Personally, I don’t really see this as being in any way the kind of news that the changes to the Congregation for Bishops was.
Of course people are seeing what they want to see here.