I wasn’t expecting some socialist or something in the papacy. But I suppose I’m coming from the perspective of seeing a lot of people hoping for the immediate rollback of the past 70 or more years of social progress after the election of Trump. Like a great worldwide mandate to return to the social order of old. And so even though this guy seems like just some basic moderate, not even as progressive as Francis (a low bar), the fact that he’s not completely against those reforms and in many cases supportive seems like not the worst outcome.

That's reasonable, you'll probably find that he won't cosign Trump style fascism. I'm personally really concerned about how the Church will react as climate collapse forces millions of refugees up north, it's bound to happen under his papacy unless he dies young. I think I would've preferred someone like Turkson for that end. I don't know, maybe I should completely compartmentalize my political analysis from religious feelings seeing as Francis was very much an exceptional pope.