Dass yachid says:
The purpose of Artscroll, and its tremendous accomplishment, is that it enables balabatim who otherwise wouldn’t be able to learn on their own to do so, or at least to cover more ground.
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Do some honest home work, mr Dass tachid and u may just discover that before “kollel” was invented ,just about every man was a balaboss.
Some how these ballei varim managed to learn just fine without an artscroll. So don’t align the birth of arscroll with balleibatim