Suggesting exclusively academic authors, whether they wear fabric on their head or otherwise, is to imply that the hundreds of mainstream seforim on the rambam – the meforshim on him, and myriad others, like the ohr somayach, are all not as important or informative….
Iif the only view of “Maimonides” you have is from maskilim, when talmidei chachamim have “learned up” rambams for centuries… it’s very telling of where your emunah lies. When you learn gemara, you go to (I hope) rashi and tosfos – when there’s a “shverer”, difficult rambam, you go to the meforshim – take a look st the frankel rambams with the massive, exhaustive index of seforim…..not a single academic/maskil/heretic on there.