zahavasdad: you’re correct, but Israel is not a clear cut Sephardic country so you in effect go by the community in which you live. Most communities are very mixed, but that’s how we Jews like it, the more confusing, the more to argue over, lol
As to Quinoa, the Star-K tested and researched it and proved that Quinoa is not kitniyos and as you say, the issue has gone wild and taken on a life of it’s own. That’s the times we live in. The Chumrah of the month club run amok.
charliehall: To make the point, it was better using the longest time period on record.
Another point, while we don’t change our minhagim because of it, it seems to me though I can’t say for sure, but in all likelihood the Sephardic minhagim are more correct than ours, since they were closer to the source than we were.