YO, are you saying that speaking about passing the salt at a table is more important than being able to read seforim on your own, and write chidushei torah?
We find it’s a mitzvah to learn lashon kodesh, but we do not find a mitzvah to speak it. Aderabah, we find that jewish communities across the world never spoke hebrew, but rather judaicized non-Jewish languages. This phenomenon cannot be coincidental – ashkenazim, sefardim, yemenites, far-flung communities, and during the time of chazal, and even in our time…the way yeshiva people speak is not standard english.