Neville, i wasn’t intending to blast baalebatim per se, rather the idea that the way daf yomi is learned has any connection with knowing “kol hatorah kulah.” It’s a bizayon hatorah to say that people who memorize shakla vetarya know kol hatorah kulah. They don’t.
Now it’s obviously a great thing and mesirus nefesh if a person only has an hour to learn to spend that time learning according to their abilities and energy – actually, that hour of mesirus nefesh is considerably more valuable in shomayim than hours spent leisurely learning superficially by a yeshiva man.
But does that torah mean that he knows Torah b”iyun, where it can be remotely described as kol hatorah kulah?
Sorry, it doesn’t work that way. A good baalabus is not a talmid chacham; they have different roles, and that line must not be crossed. Of course there are working people who are talmidei chachamim, but that’s only if fhey spent years learning before going to work full time.