TU731: Honestly, your pontificating about this nebulous “Mesorah” that can trump Rishonim and Mitzvos D’Oraisa with the head of every Yeshivah getting to define what they are sounds a lot more like Conservative Judaism than Orthodoxy.
Chas Veshalom!! I never said mesoras are nebulous. I said that very few people properly know and undertand what they are. To them it’s not nebulous. And you need a rebbe for rishonim too. It’s not an issue of “trumping” rishonim. Their lashon is often very misleading. (I’m not saying that that is necessarily true specifically here, though.)
My point is simply that there are other considerations — many that you won’t find addressed by the rishonim outright if at all — that are relevant.
And as far as sounding like conservative/reform, this is mamesh the ultimate extreme of what they are not!!! The whole idea of a mesora is being true to tradition as possible!! Con/Ref are all about “adapting” tradition, if you can even call that adapting, to modern times (ie modern morals, principles, etc).