It's fair to say I've met traddy 16 year olds. And indeed I went to trad mass on a couple of occasions when I was that age (though more in a spirit of inquiry than one of devotion, plus I was born 1972, so finding out about it long after it had all happened, which gives a quite different perspective). It's more the terms in which he expresses his views (and his articulacy) that I find unconvincing.