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…
Kasha didn’t you realize that I threw what you told me back at you? Will you ask your Rov whether one can force a wife to wash their feet in today’s times?
I concede to you on the point that Chazal didn’t create halacha, they interperted it. Just as Rashi interperted the meaning of pesukim and “explicit” halachos in Chumash.