Syag> You haven’t given a halachik source
We had R Akiva and Rambam discussed before and I referred to several siyufim in Shulchan Orach, Yoreh Deah 255 above. True, I did not trace it further to our times, but you probably know this is how halakha is discussed, starting from earlier sources. So, either I am not applying S’A terms correctly to modern realities (as Avram is suggesting) or there are later sources that explain why and how halakha changed.