@ CS
“Like we said it’s not necessarily a list of must have but common pointers we see by those Torah leaders / tzaddikim”
I wrote that you are right that the list of 3 criteria wasn’t meant as a check list in that you need “all of the above” and davka these 3. !!However!! what they have in common is –
>>> they are an objective expressions of the seriousness with which other Rabbonim take his Torah. <<<
That common denominator is not negotiable