Valdemar II
Banned
I think we're talking about different people (I think you're thinking of Joseph II), but your points are pretty good.
Your're confusing Franz Josef (who was rather dull) with Josef II (who wasn't)
Yes sorry I just read Joseph. Franz Joseph will be butterflied away, and even if he isn't, his main problem was that he was reactionary mediocre ruler in a country, which needed someone reform-minded and talented. An Austrian(-German) Empire, in which Hungarian power is broken, the majority (or at least close to it) is German and has kept the more economical interventionistic perspective of the 18th century Habsburg rather than the reactionary laize-faire attitude of the 19th century Habsburgs is going to deal better with having a reactionary idiot in power.