I just don’t see why it’s necessary to make a “better” Torah home.
Forget necessary – is it better?
and as we’ve established, the side effects of that system are pernicious.
Speak for yourself; I never established that.
What about the main effects? What are they?
so is it your opinion that people who learn in kollel are frummer and better Yidden with better middos than people that don’t? It sounds like it.
It is absolutely my opinion and observation that people who learn more, kollel or otherwise, are on the whole (sure, with too many exceptions) bigger b’nei Torah, with all that encompasses. It so happens that the way our society is structured, there’s more opportunity to learn while in kollel, but it’s the learning itself which is the cause.
I don’t think it’s any kind of chiddush that learning Torah has a positive effect on a person or on his family.