oyyoyyoy,
“I am definitely someone who is severely lacking in the midah of not being a behaimah”
Then keep working on yourself. But are you really suggesting that Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, a huge talmid chacham and yorei shamayim, spat upon the truth? He has an absolute right to decide what is proper for his following and I have a feeling that your learning and yiras shamayim is nowhere near his. It would take a true gadol to say such a thing.