Wow, writersoul, I think I offended you!
Completely unintentionally!
My apologies.
I was so not trying to assume anything about you or your friend or me or anybody else belonging to any “camp”. The Gedolim I mentioned were solidly planted in daled amos shel Halacha and did not have huge crowds of followers outside their own corners of the world. Rebbetzin Lifsha, who had a fascinating life imbued with Ahavas Torah and Yiras Shamayim, was not a famous celebrity that throngs flocked to for Brachos. I was not saying that you or anybody else would have been remiss in possibly not making their acquaintance while walking the earth at the same time that they lived. I was trying to suggest that while I did indeed know who Rav Aharon Lichtenstein was, I would not look askance at someone who did not.