regarding the sister lucys, it sounds plausible but struck me as a distraction from other things (I wasn't aware of the relevance of it to a lot of modern pressing issues)

I'm not ready to go full sede

I understand, although I also don't, as the Vatican seems to have significantly drifted from Catholicism in my view. Like, it hasn't been much of a question once I became aware of the issues, they have quite obviously broken from Catholicism (the Vatican / Vatican 2 / those connected to it) and I wouldn't hesitate to embrace sedevacantism in contrast. It's more a question of how we move that from a minority view to the embraced view and how the Vatican can become Catholic again. I do think it's somewhat of a confusing situation like the Western Schism, i.e. laymen following Francis are not automatically not Catholic for doing so (although they may be to the extent of embracing modern errors)

Vigano history

Yes, well we think JP2 and B16 were also pretty openly anti-Catholic, and so would not have promoted Vigano if Vigano was some kind of traditionalist. JP2 had the assisi "interfaith" prayer events. B16 kissed the Koran and was pretty obviously putting on a "fake conservative" show while promoting modernist philosophy... he was "suspect of heresy" at one point before being elected as "pope": https://www.traditioninaction.org/ProgressivistDoc/A_001_CondemnationRatzinger.htm