I haven’t seen a single point to ponder. What I’ve seen is 3rd grade insults of “you’re a girl,” historical nonsense about shas not being sefardi because some of its members dress like the bnei torah in their area, claims that rav ovadia, an extremely maikil posek, was influenced by supposed ashkenazi chumros, without a single example, and claims that kollel is ashkenaz, which is demonstrably false.
Then i made the mistake of stooping to your level about the hangup with the colors of how bnei torah dress; it’s not that big of a deal, it’s just the current way bnei torah chose to dress, and it represents the humility and diginity of that station, but of course to you it’s arbitrary and European influence – i wouldn’t care if bnei torah chose to wear blue, brown, or other dark colors which can show humility, but jeans and t-shirts are not the way a ben torah of any world would dress, they’re just not.
either way, dress is a very important issue to you, but it has nothing to do with the claim that shas is influenced by ashkenazim. They built up the sefardi world and taught exclusively sefardi torah, from the beis yosef to the ben ish chai and rav ovadia himself. It’s kol kulo sefardi, and only a stubborn delusion obsessed with outward appearance can look at a sefardi ben torah living a torah life according to the halachos of rav ovadia and say that he’s not sefardi because he happens to dress like the bnei torah in his time and place.
What have i not “pondered”?