Is This a Counter-Counter Reformation? Or Un-Vatican 2?

One of the primary reforms pushed by Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, and others in the sixteenth century was that worship--the Mass--be said in the language of the people. After all, if worship is the work of the people (that's what the word transliterated from the Greek as liturgy means), then you want the people able to know what they're doing.

Now comes word that Pope Benedict is going to authorize the more widespread use of the Latin Mass. I like Benedict. But this seems like tradition for tradition's sake.

Would some of my Roman Catholic friends and readers like to explain the Pope's apparent intent to expand the use of Latin in public worship?