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“Neville, when a chassidish minyan starts at 9:40 on a shabbos, ask around how many of the congregants actually said krias shema.”
That is absolute bologna. There are plenty of non-chassidishe minyanim that don’t reach krias shema until after zman during parts of the year as well (maybe the whole year by M”A). Everyone says it before davening.