“Roshei yeshiva aren’t going to blast something which is flawed but gets people to learn, because it’s not as if they’re going to drop it and leatn sugyos biyun slowly, covering maybe an amud a week due to their work schedules.
Also, a large amount of baalei batim simply lack the ability to learn sugyos biyun. Many can and do, as kolel yungeleit transition to the working world.”
Doesn’t sound like something I would say has “little value,” so I’m not really sure where we even differ. Nobody is saying that learning Daf Yomi is as good as learning b’iyun in yeshiva all day. The comment that started this digression was the assertion that it’s of little to no value in general.
“t’s true that rav belsky held that the shavers the litvishe world uses were perfectly kosher, but many of his talmidim, including me, were strict, and he held that using trimmers instead was a good chumra to practice.”
The never-shavers on this thread do not make a distinction between trimmers and shavers as far as I can tell. They might not even make a distinction for scissors.
“Anybody who takes one poster’s statements and applies it to the group that poster speaks for will end up being wrong.”
Welcome to the real world, buddy. People make generalizations based on experiences. Anyone with more than one week of experience on the CR should know that.
Other than just that, this particular thread was addressed to the Yeshivish oilam in general, so people responding are claiming to represent their community.