Trust 789. That’s not true, that’s simply asking ahalacha question because he knows more halacha than you.
We all have to live our lives according to the way the torah wants us to live our lives, unfortunately, we, on our low level, don’t understand the torah fully like they did in past generations. So we turn to our gedolim to help us out.
Now they’re not perfect, but it’s the best we can do.
Worse case scenario, they’re wrong, and when the beis din shel maalah asks us, we did all we can.
But we MUST realize that wer must try as hard as we can to get the way we live our lives (not just halacha shailos) from the torah and those who represent the torah.