The dictionary does not define or describe the color “blue” based on whether people like it or not, but on some other basis.
Similarly, terms in law are not to be defined or understood on the basis of attitudes that some people might hold about how they are used, but on the basis of how the law itself uses them.
The term indult has no particularly fixed meaning or nature, but generally and broadly speaking, it is simply an act of a competent Church authority that allows a juridic person (for example, an episcopal conference) or a physical person (i.e. an individual) to do something that would not otherwise be permitted or possible. But it necessarily involves the exercise of power in the Church by someone with the authority to give the indult.
Indults modify how a law is to be applied in a concrete particular case by permitting an exception, but they do not break the law itself. They are not loopholes but a recognition that the law, which is abstract and universal in nature, might not properly fit a concrete and particular situation or serve the good of the salvation of souls in that situation.
This is somewhat associated with the legal principle called “equity” which recognizes that a rigorous, universal and unchanging application of the law does not always serve the purposes of justice in an individual circumstance and, might, in fact, inflict an unjust injury.
An indult could be in the way of a dispensation or a privilege or the granting of a faculty. The language of any given indult would need to examined to see which of these or something else would apply.
In the code, the term indult usually refers to the permissions given for individuals in some form of consecrated life to live apart from their institutes for a period of time, or to depart from the institute permanently.
Now, certain persons 1) might not like others doing what an indult has permitted, or 2) do not like the reasons for the indult, or 3) do not like the intentional or even unintended effects of an indult, or 4) believe that the Church authority which gave the indult lacked the competence to give it.
In essence, they may have come to judge that a particular indult should not have been given.
But there is a difference between legal notions and such personal judgements about how the law is used.
). I’m curious if you are referencing an actual situation or are speaking hypothetically.