It certainly sounds nice. How I wish it were true.
To argue with you would involve leveling accusations and statements against people and sects that would be assur for me to make, and would certainly antagonize many who would read it. So I’m not going to argue with you.
The issue I will bring up – without any names and addresses – is about those who act within the parameters of Torah and Mitzvos, yet do not fit with your admirable moshol. In your moshol, all are heading towards the same destination and are travelling along the same route. There is no necessity for the ships to be the same. On that we say כשם שאין פרצופיהם דומין כך אין דיעותיהן דומין זל”ז.
There are two types of people who I take issue with, and neither of them fit your description.
(A) There are those who are travelling towards the same destination, but who take a different route. This isn’t a difference in the ship, it is a difference in the journey. If the Torah prescribes a specific route, then you can be heading to the same destination and still be wrong. Although these people generally mean well, they can still be wrong.
(B) The people who live within the parameters of Halacha, but are not heading towards the same destination at all. These are people whose ships are heading in the opposite direction, and often the Torah and Mitzvos are “things that come upon us on the way”. They may be travelling the same seas and may look like the same ship, but there is a difference in destination.
Forgive me for going one step closer towards being explicit – people in Category B arise when they don’t follow your other desciption: I think that we are the products of their hashpo’oh, and of any other hashpo’os our parents saw fit to expose us to. I think that with those influences, with the guidance of a manhig or manhigim that the individual trusts, and the immersion of living in a Jewish environment. It’s when people expose themselves or their children to hashpo’os their parents didn’t see fit to expose them to, and immerse themselves in anything other than a Jewish environment.
Halacha dictates the parameters of “Dos and Donts”. If you contravene Halachah on a regular basis, then you are not observant. It is matter of hashkafa, however, to decide what is the destination and what route to take towards that destination.