While the current percentage of cardinals who are Italian is lower than it was in the past, there are still way too many Italian cardinals.
Italy, with about 53 million Catholics, has 50 cardinals - 22 are over 80 years old, so Italy has 28 votes. The USA, with about 74 million Catholics, has 19 cardinals, 8 are over 80 years old, so the USA has 11 votes. Italy has 2 1/2 times as many votes as the USA. How is that fair?
It looks to me like the Catholic church slows unreasonable favoritism towards Italy. Many other heavily Catholic countries also have a smaller number of cardinals than they should have, based on numbers of Catholics. Brazil, for example, has the largest number of Catholics of any country, 123 million, yet it has only 9 cardinals, 4 are over 80 years old.
I guess that the old men in dresses in Italy play the game the way that they want.
Not my problem since I am no longer a Catholic.
"Id est quod est."