“You should learn Noam Elimelech and other early Chassidic texts and then you will at least see the things you find offensive about Lubavitch (which I obviously would not consider worship) are really just mainstream Chassidus. ”
You can’t bring lomdus to a metzius fight. That’s like if I were to say “Islam is a violent religion,” and you responded with “but this verse in the Quran says to be peaceful.”
Another few fallacies you committed: you assume I’ve never learned other classic Chassidic texts; you’re wrong. Other classics like the Yismach Moshe, Sfas Emes, and to some degree even Breslev Chassidus are categorically more traditionally text-based than Chabad’s tend to be. By which I mean, the prerequisite knowledge of shas and poskim to learn the Chabad Rebbe’s works is much lower than for other Chassidishe texts. I think I’ve even heard Lubavitchers mention this as a good thing about Chabad, but it’s an admission that Chabad is different than other Chassidim. You can’t have it both ways.
You also seemed to assume I’m not acquainted with any non-Chabad chassidim, which is completely baseless and untrue. I have to assume that you yourself have not had a lot of exposure to them and are assuming everyone else is just as sheltered. It’s unusual even for proud Lubavitchers to deny that their derech is completely different than that of other chassidim.