@ YO “Imagine you worked with people that kept saying incorrect things about Jews. Eventually you’d want to correct them”
Right, like the anti-Semitic myth that Jews descend from Khazars
Also, news flash. It is not only among Ashkenazim that certain groups started emphasizing practices based on the Zohar and Kitvei Ari. Surely you are familiar with the Chida and Ben Ish Chai (for starters). This does not make any ones mesorah 200 years old. We all learn Rashi, Tos, and Rosh right along with Rif, Rambam, and Rashba.