This idea of NOT learning “Nach” (nobody restricts learning Chumash with commentary) is something new. This is because, like living in E”Y, and speaking of the Hebrew language, the study of Tanach (albeit as ancient history, rather than the word of Hashem) was embraced by many secular Zionists.
So as not to appear, copying the ways of the “secular Zionists”. These three extremely important aspects of Jewish life were either limited or simply ignored completely by many Jews.
Clearly one of the greatest examples of “cutting off one’s nose to spite his face”