“I have difficulty accepting that Rav Soloveichink paskened as intimated.”
rob: Your “difficulty” notwithstanding, that is what Rabbi Soloveitchik clearly stated as testified by his talmidim, including his son-in-law who’s Sefer I directly quoted.
“One, becausze many of hsi talmidim do differently”
Many of his talmidim do many things he opposed. “Modern Orthodoxy” is short for do-it-as-you-like Judaism and call it Orthodox. But that is another topic completely. (Maybe I’ll create one in the CR for it.)
In fact, as Jothar earlier stated on this thread, there are many things Rabbi Soloveitchik is grotesquely misquoted as allowing what he clearly opposed – women’s prayer groups being another very noted issue.
But this is old news.