Source and Summit, Ends and Means?

"One of global Catholicism's most prominent chroniclers" (self-proclaimed, kinda like "Roman Catholic" Womenpriests, seems to think that Cardinal Sarah,

"hew[s] closer to Francis' own liturgical approach – as one op summarized its principles: "Go by the book. Don't make a fuss about it. And remember that liturgy's always a means to an end – not an end in itself."

If this is the Holy Father's and the new Prefect's "liturgical approach," (and there is no evidence other than the whisperer's claim of an "op" who reports it, that it is)... the Pope and the Cardinal are, quite simply, wrong.

Perhaps they are Vatican II deniers?

Because those of us who are not, know that the Council, indeed, the Church, teaches that the Liturgy is both ends and means - Source and Summit.