Also, if rabbi yoshe ber’s main students were the people you mentioned, we’d have much less issues with YU et al (rabbi shechter’s troubling mixture of nationalism to justify the deaths of jews for a secular state in the land for peace teshuva is jarring, and in doing so forces me to not regard him as a legitimate authority, but that doesn’t apply to all the others)
Most of his talmidim were not nearly as frum as them.