should ask a shalah if they are acting within the parameters of halacha because at the end of the day we are halachic Jews.
That’s exactly what I’ve been saying! (First comment on this page: “ask the 2 shaalos that were suggested to you? I know you said you don’t think their necessary, but at the end of the day were all halachic Jews.”) Someone here [*cough*] expressed a reluctance though to even ask a shailah…
BTW, your points 1 and 2 although roughly correct (actually Chazal didn’t “create” halacha, they’ve interpreted it. Chazal have instituted some Mitzvos D’Rabbonon [i.e. gezeiros and takkanos], but the issue we’ve been discussing here is a m’doriaisa that the poskim and meforshim that I’ve quoted and others base from a pasuk in the Torah.)