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Yet there are also plenty of places where it says Asavim. For instance a Yerushalmi, a Medrash Raba, two places in Medresh Tehillim, and a Yalkut Shimoni. And even if there are more times that it doesn’t say Asavim, that’s not a reason to change the girsa since it’s not a stira (if you say that Techeiles is green. It’s only a stira if before reading the Talmudic sources you already have presupposed that it’s blue, which is probably not a good way to approach a sugya.

Tosfos is a rishon and most definitely does not agree with the Gra. (Perhaps Tosfos agrees halacha limaaseh that Techeiles is blue, but that is a horse of a different color.)And I don’t think the Marey Panim is learning it as a machlokes. He’s learning it as a stira in mashmaos. In fact he quotes Tosfos and Tosfos also says it as conflicting mashmaos.