Dear HaKatan,
Is this discussion about standards, or about reality? I don’t really care for yeshivaliet that claim Torah is everything, but never get around to learning.
If the commitment is relatively higher by the MO, than that should be applauded and used as an example. There is no shame in gaining insight from other groups.
1. Applies to every group. Otherwise there wouldn’t be different groups.
2. Zionism does not line up equally with any orthodox denomination. You’ll find Anti Zionism even by the militant Mizrachi. If someone as great as Rav Reines could embrace Zionism, there isn’t any abstract problem with it. So leave it out of this discussion. It could just be that MO are great Jews if not for their acceptance of Zionism. Besides, you can’t define Zionism anyways.
3. Are you talking to or against Rav Hirsch?