DovidBT,
Your sentiment is part of the reason we have the bracha “hashiva shofeteinu k’varishona” in our shemona esrei, but in the absence of the centralized halachic authority that will iy”H be restored when Moshiach comes, the LOR sticking to the mesora he received from his rebbe is doing the right thing. Even though it may be different from the mesora of the rav down the street.