The writers: How do we get the docs into Fiennes' hands? Oh who cares, we'll just stick them in a hidden spot behind the Pop÷e's headboard and have Fiennes be the only person who notices something poking out.

Or all the cardinals voting for a guy they didn't even know existed until a couple days before.

Etc.

I can live with the ending, though I totally understand disliking it.

LOL at the symbolic turtles though.