

They serve for life (or until resignation), so if someone relatively young is elected pope, the same person will be pope for many decades. The cardinals don’t typically want that to happen, so they’ll tend to want to elect someone who is probably going to die soon.
So teens who don’t fit in well in the IRL spaces that are available to them should have 0 ways to have social interactions?
If teen me hadn’t had the internet, I would have 0 joyful memories whatsoever of my teen years. Anyone sympathizing with the ideas in the OP is in my mind purely evil and oppressive, I have no other words to describe this.