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Did Pope John Paul II's apparently infallible "prescribe any method for the election of his successor" in stating that Canon 333 § 2 was how a pope was to resign mean that Francis is an antipope because Pope Benedict XVI was in "substantial error" and therefore "not free"?

JOHN PAUL II
SUPREME PONTIFF
APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION
UNIVERSI DOMINICI GREGIS
ON THE VACANCY
OF THE APOSTOLIC SEE
AND THE ELECTION
OF THE ROMAN PONTIF...
...I decree that the dispositions concerning everything that precedes the election of the Roman Pontiff and the carrying out of the election itself must be observed in full, even if the vacancy of the Apostolic See should occur as a result of the resignation of the Supreme Pontiff, in accordance with the provisions of Canon 333 § 2 of the Code of Canon Law and Canon 44 § 2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_22021996_universi-dominici-gregis.html]

Did Pope John Paul II's apparently infallible "prescribe any method for the election of his successor" in stating that Canon 333 § 2 was how a pope was to resign mean that Francis is an antipope because Pope Benedict XVI was in "substantial error" and therefore "not free"?

Renowned Catholic historian Warren Carroll agreed with Bishop René Gracida on the determining factor for discerning a valid conclave for a valid papal election besides divine law. Carroll pronounced:

"But each Pope, having unlimited sovereign power as head of the Church, can prescribe any method for the election of his successor(s) that he chooses... A papal claimant not following these methods is also an Antipope." -The Catholic Monitor [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2023/07/flashback-5-dubia-questions-for-1p5s.html]

The following is from a Catholic Monitor reader:

Bergoglio is not pope simply because Benedict XVI does not abdicate the office. If this questioning of the office is a goal of the cardinals, then they will be more successful. Because the [Pope John Paul II's] Universi Dominici Gregis says that it is necessary to abdicate according to Canon Law 32:2. Failure to comply on this point will lead to the conclusion in Article 76:

"In the event that the election is made in a manner other than that prescribed in this Constitution or without the conditions set forth herein having been observed, such election is therefore null and void, without the need for any declaration, and therefore confers no right on the person elected." [https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2023/09/are-1p5-gaspers-feser-their.html]

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