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Ubiquitin – I don’t think it’s comparable. Kitniyus is a specific minhag which applies to the entire Ashkenaz world and which became halacha for the entire Ashkenazi world. Everyone, even the Sephardi poskim, agree that the Ashkenazim have to follow the Rema.
Chassidism, on the other hand, was a (hashkafic) movement within the Ashkenzai world that broke off (to an extent) from main-stream Orthodoxy, and many people are anti-Chassidus even today. As part of their movement, they may have taken on different minhagim, so if someone wants to break off from that movement and return to mainstream Orthodoxy, I can see where it may not be a problem halachically (and does not begin to compare to an Ashkenazi Jew deciding to eat kitniyus on Pesach).
A better comparison might be the son of a Religious-Zionist deciding that he is not a Zionist anymore and therefore stops saying Hallel on Yom HaAtzmaut.