“I think that when he wrote that it’s a “silly sheilah”, he meant it in a self- deprecating way, ”
Um, yes obviously.
” and I get the impression from things posters have written at times that there are too many people going to LOR’s when they should be going to Gedolim”
disagree completely, In fact I think we have the opposite problem. There is a whole genre of books now of silly questions people ask Gedolim such as R’ Chamim Kanievsky. Every time anybody asks a question here the repsonse is ask your LOR. You dont need your LOR to tell you what beracha to make on an apple and you dont need a gadol hador to answer a simple yoreh deah sheila (OF course we can both be right)