The paradox is the following.
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The Holy Spirit chooses the cardinals through the pope.
The Holy Spirit chooses the pope through the cardinals.
You believe in the Holy Spirit's infallibility.
You believe in the church's infallibility through the Holy Spirit..
You believe in God's omnipotence.
You believe in the perfection of God.
So you must believe the process can't go wrong.
So obedience is a logic consequence because you must reason that even if things go not as expected, then you must obey and trust that the thoughts of God are higher than your thoughts and God's ways are higher than your ways.

Now the pope is a puppet and a clown. QED.
So what happened?
Something went wrong!
You must give up on something.
Omnipotence?
Infallibility?
Perfection of God?
Obedience?
Giving up on obedience, then you give up on God!
Reasoning that obedience is an absolute value only in sync with other values is not enough for a perfect church.
So is the Catholic Church not so perfect? (fallible)
And if the church is not perfect than you can reason that the Holy Spirit did fail!
And then also the perfect infallible God Failed.

It is a paradox.
Something we believe is WRONG.
We must find out what it is and accept it.

I vote for: God is omnipotent, but not instantaneously omnipotent.
That gives wings to the devil who always loses after a while.
The second world war lasted six or seven years.
The evil roman empire dissolved and even left Christianity fortified.
This so called crisis is Soteriologic.
God induced, God led and God resolved.
And after it Christianity comes out fortified.
If not, then you can give up on the God of Jesus.